Download or read book French Romantic Travel Writing written by Christopher W. Thompson and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2012 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering overview of the travel books produced by fourteen French Romantic writers - including Chateaubriand, Staël, Stendhal, Hugo, Nerval, Sand, Mérimée, Dumas, and Tristan - whose journeys ranged from Peru to Russia and from North America to North Africa and the Near East.