Ceridwen E McKenna is your time traveling tour guide, reading from historic travel narratives before flight shrunk the world. From medieval times to the last century, experience travel through vintage eyes through your modern ears. 20 minute episodes include whole serialized books and travel journals (in public domain) and may include short personal stories, excerpts of newer publications or occasional interviews. Books that capture the imagination of faraway places jostle against our ears in both literature style and old-world references that may seem quite strange. How places have changed over time, and what people find important in different eras fascinates and delights the senses like a slow, rainy afternoon in a treasured bookstore. Snuggle in and be transported through time and space.
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Ceridwen E McKenna is your time traveling tour guide, reading from historic travel narratives before flight shrunk the world. From medieval times to the last century, experience travel through vintage eyes through your modern ears. 20 minute episodes include whole serialized books and travel journals (in public domain) and may include short personal stories, excerpts of newer publications or occasional interviews. Books that capture the imagination of faraway places jostle against our ears in both literature style and old-world references that may seem quite strange. How places have changed over time, and what people find important in different eras fascinates and delights the senses like a slow, rainy afternoon in a treasured bookstore. Snuggle in and be transported through time and space.
Episode 1: Gondola Days - An Arrival by Train 1897
Then & There - a vintage travel podcast
18 minutes
2 years ago
Episode 1: Gondola Days - An Arrival by Train 1897
Welcome to Venice, site of ancient, watery dreams of gold, purple, song, oleander! Follow F. Hopkinson Smith as he (Francis) takes us via rail to the Venice that greets you as you arrive. This book, Gondola Days is a delight for the senses, and far more evocative than our fella who led us through Belgium and Holland. First a description of the book itself--because what's a vintage travel narrative without the feel of the paper, the details of the illustrations? A teaser of what's to come, via the Tables of Contents and Illustrations, and then smacko! - right into the Venice of the Victorian Era. Sit back and let the Gondola deliver you through these time-worn canals.
Then & There - a vintage travel podcast
Ceridwen E McKenna is your time traveling tour guide, reading from historic travel narratives before flight shrunk the world. From medieval times to the last century, experience travel through vintage eyes through your modern ears. 20 minute episodes include whole serialized books and travel journals (in public domain) and may include short personal stories, excerpts of newer publications or occasional interviews. Books that capture the imagination of faraway places jostle against our ears in both literature style and old-world references that may seem quite strange. How places have changed over time, and what people find important in different eras fascinates and delights the senses like a slow, rainy afternoon in a treasured bookstore. Snuggle in and be transported through time and space.
