Mein Leben

Name of traveller

Paul Deussen (1845-1919)

Reason for travel

• leisurely travel, holidaying

Date of travel

10 October 1905

In vierstündiger, überaus mühsamer Wanderung durch ganz menschenleere Gegend auf wenig gebahnten Wegen, vorüber an Abgründen links und rechts, erreichte ich, während unheimliche Nebelgespenster hin und wieder vorüberhuschten, endlich den Gipfel . . .. (Deussen 332)

Content

• recreation:
  • description of a strenuous climb up Snowdon
  • hotel on the summit of Snowdon open for business
• terrain:
  • conflation of Wales and England
  • description of a depopulated and eerie landscape surrounding Snowdon during the climb
  • climbing through fog; blue sky on the summit with clouds filling the valleys below
• transport: travels on foot and by Snowdon mountain railway
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Nationality of traveller

German

Language of publication

German

Gender of traveller

Male

Type of publication

autobiography

Citation

Deussen, Paul. Mein Leben. Ed. Erika Rosenthal-Deussen. Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1922. 332. Print.