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These days hardly anyone remembers Augustus John Curthbert Hare (1834-1903). But in his prime, the late Victorian age, his name was on the lips of anyone who mattered. He was a travel writer, a storyteller and a memoirist of the first order, and his work is a fascinating record of a lost way of life amongst the strangest upper classes of English society.
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A condensation of the six-volume autobiography of Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1834-1903), a Victorian writer, born to a mad, upper-class English family, who survived a cruel childhood to write monumental travel guides to the Continent as well as an autobiography titled The Story of My Life . Includes Hare's own adventures as well as travel and ghost stories and accounts of royalty and various eccentrics whom he encountered. B&w illustrations, many by Hare himself. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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