Presented in a handsome three-volume casebound set in a pleasing rose, with an introduction by Diane Johnson, these carefully edited travel classic include Robert Louis Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey, James Fenimore Cooper's Gleanings in France and Edith Wharton's A Motor-flight through France. Two Americans and a Scot, traveling in different periods with different temperaments, the spirited Wharton, melancholy, tormented Stevenson and endlessly curious Fenimore Cooper, each author portrays a very different France.  (FRN756, $45.00)

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