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The Valleys of Tirol: Their traditions and customs and how to visit them — Rachel Harriette Busk

The Valleys of Tirol: Their traditions and customs and how to visit them

Rachel Harriette Busk

  • Travel
  • Book language: English
  • 329 pages

A travelogue from 1874. Rachel Harriette Busk journeys through the valleys of Tirol, recording local traditions, customs, and practical advice for travellers. It is worth listening to for its warm portrait of mountain life and the way people travelled in that era.

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KUFSTEIN.
KUFSTEIN.
THE
VALLEYS OF TIROL
LONDON: PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
AND PARLIAMENT STREET
Original Title Page.

THE
VALLEYS OF TIROL
THEIR TRADITIONS AND
CUSTOMS
AND HOW TO VISIT THEM
BY
MISS R. H. BUSK
AUTHOR OF ‘PATRAÑAS’ ‘SAGAS FROM
THE FAR EAST’ ‘FOLK-LORE OF ROME’
ETC.
WITH FRONTISPIECE AND THREE MAPS

LONDON

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

1874

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PREFACE.

There are none who know Tirol but are forward to express regret that so picturesque and so primitive a country should be as yet, comparatively with other tracks of travel, so little opened up to the dilettante explorer.

It is quite true, on the other hand, that just in proportion as a country becomes better known, it loses, little by little, its merit of being primitive and even picturesque. Intercourse with the world beyond the mountains naturally sweeps away the idiosyncracies of the mountaineers; and though the trail of progress which the civilized tourist leaves behind him cannot absolutely obliterate the actual configuration of the country, yet its original characteristics must inevitably be modified by the changes which his visits

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Contents

  1. PREFACE.
  2. CONTENTS.
  3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  4. THE VALLEYS OF TIROL THEIR TRADITIONS AND CUSTOMS. CHAPTER I. VORARLBERG.
  5. CHAPTER II. NORTH-TIROL—UNTERINNTHAL (RIGHT-INN BANK). KUFSTEIN TO ROTTENBURG.
  6. CHAPTER III. NORTH TIROL—UNTERINNTHAL (RIGHT INN-BANK). THE ZILLERTHAL.
  7. CHAPTER IV. NORTH TIROL—UNTERINNTHAL (RIGHT INN-BANK). (ZILLERTHAL CUSTOMS.—THE WILDSCHÖNAU.)
  8. CHAPTER V. NORTH TIROL—UNTERINNTHAL. (LEFT INN-BANK.)
  9. CHAPTER VI. NORTH TIROL—UNTERINNTHAL (RIGHT INN-BANK). SCHWATZ.
  10. CHAPTER VII. NORTH TIROL—UNTERINNTHAL (RIGHT INN-BANK). EXCURSIONS FROM SCHWATZ.
  11. CHAPTER VIII. NORTH TIROL—THE INNTHAL. INNSBRUCK.
  12. CHAPTER IX. NORTH TIROL—THE INNTHAL. INNSBRUCK (continued).
  13. CHAPTER X. NORTH TIROL—OBERINNTHAL. INNSBRUCK TO ZIRL AND SCHARNITZ—INNSBRUCK TO THE LISENS-FERNER.
  14. CHAPTER XI. WÄLSCH-TIROL. THE WÄLSCH-TIROLISCHE ETSCHTHAL AND ITS TRIBUTARY VALLEYS.
  15. CHAPTER XII. WÄLSCH-TIROL. VAL SUGANA.—GIUDICARIA.—FOLKLORE.
  16. INDEX.
  17. Colophon
  18. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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