"Une visite au South Stack"

Name of traveller

Philarète Chasles (1798-1873)

Reason for travel

• cultural tourism
• en route to Ireland

Date of travel

early June, 1822

[À] gauche, un ocean gêné dans son lit, rendu furieux par les obstacles dont sa puissance se courrouce; à droite, une côte hérissée de rocs noirs et ferrugineux, asiles des mouettes et des oiseaux de proie. (Philarète 104)

Content

• architecture:
  • interested in lighthouses
  • tells story of the construction of the lighthouse on South Stack and adds a brief description of the two men living and working there at the time
• people: travels with an Irish friend, Patrick O'Mealy, who has a house on Anglesey
• terrain: detailed descriptions of pird populations
• transport: gives details of a number of shipwrecks around Anglesey
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Nationality of traveller

French

Language of publication

French

Gender of traveller

Male

Type of publication

travelogue

Citation

Chasles, Philarète. "Une visite au South Stack." Études sur les hommes et les moeurs au XIXe siècle. Paris: Amyot, 1850. 101-30. Print.