History of a Six Weeks' Tour
Author(s): Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography, Travel & Geography
Narrators: BettyB, Kalynda, Pamela Nagami
Number of Chapters: 11
Length: 02 hours and 19 minutes
Language: English
Full titled History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni, this small journal was a travel narrative kept by the English Romantic authors Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. They describe two trips, both taken by Mary, Percy, and Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont: one across Europe in 1814, and one to Lake Geneva in 1816. Divided into three sections, the text consists of a journal, four letters, and Percy Shelley's poem "Mont Blanc". Apart from the poem, the text was primarily written and organized by Mary Shelley. - Summary by 1817