Benjamin Moore Norman

The language used is lovely & I enjoyed it very much! This is a book I would like to read aloud to the girls when they are slightly older so they can appreciate both the language & the story. Some excerpts - the first is to explain the kind of traveler he is & I'm skipping the "other kind." "There is another class, who have faith in man wherever he exists, and who rely upon the permanence of the laws of Nature; who do not imagine that a man is necessarily a cannibal or a troglodyte because born in a different degree of latitude, nor that water will refuse to run down hill at a foreigner's request....he would require nothing but a valise to contain his outfit for a circumnavigation of the globe and would include the moon in his circuit, if practicable, without materially enlarging his equipage...." And to explain the local in Yucatan: "The incidents of the day came into review before us - the first day that we had passed here among strangers in a strange land. We found ourselves absolutely regretting to part from friends of an hour's creation....these are some of the transitory passages, the sunny spots of life, which memory most dearly cherishes....these are a part of the items that constitute what man calls happiness - the jewels, not doubt; and we shall make them lawful prize wherever and whenever they fall in our way."… (plus d'informations)