A Gap Year or Two [Paperback]

Jeremy MacDonogh (Author), Julian Fellowes (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 22, 2007

Young man, go to Europe! It is not without due reflection that I venture thus to reverse the geographical direction of a famous saying. As America now stands, I believe by far the most valuable education a young man can obtain is a European trip, undertaken during the years most often devoted to a college course. It costs no more; it may evencost less; and I make bold to say it is immesaurably more educative Allowing that America is still the best country in which to be born, I Allowing that America is still the best country in which to be born, I still maintain that Europe is the best country in which to get a year'seducation. I mean a year of travel, enjoyment, observation. The best learning of all is the learning we acquire without ever knowing it. Nothing makes impressions so vivid as pleasure. Now, travel holds the same position with regard to mankind, its history, its industry, its arts, its organisation, as laboratory work holds to chemistry, field work to geology, and dissection to biology. If you want to understand the world of men, you must go and see it.

Product Details

• Paperback: 488 pages
• Publisher: Athena Press (March 22, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 184401987X
• ISBN-13: 978-1844019878
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,114,771 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A great mixture of dazzling biography and classical history, May 11, 2007

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I was very unsure where this book would take me, and I became so unsure that I couldn't put it down. Enjoyable, informative romp through Europe. A proper travelogue, by a proper gentleman.