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I believe the old Italian proverb says, that every man, before he dies, should do three things: "Get a son, build a house, and write a book." Now, whether or not I am desirous, by beginning at the end, to end at the beginning of this quaint axiom, I leave the reader to conjecture. My book may afford amusement to him who will smile when I am glad, and sympathise with the impressions I have caught in other moods of mind; but I have little affinity of feeling, and less companionship with him who expects to see pictures of life coloured differently from those I have beheld.At three o'clock on the boisterous afternoon of the 1st of May, 1847, I left Greenwich with my friend Lord R----, in his yacht, to cruise round the coasts of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden; and, although the period of the year at which I quitted London was the one I most desired to remain in it, and join, as far as I was able, in the pomps and gaieties of Old Babylon, I did not like to miss this opportunity, offered under such favourable circumstances, of seeing countries so rarely visited by Englishmen, more particularly as the invitation had been pressed upon me so unaffectedly and kindly, that I could not, with any reason, decline it.

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• Full title: Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark and Sweden (1849)
• Author: W A Ross
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 262
• EAN: 9783941842922
• ISBN: 9783941842922
• ID: 08938172
• Publisher: Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh
• Weight: 544 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. September 2009

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