Alumni Travel Reading: Rivieras & Islands: France, Italy & Spain

Riviera Towns by Herbert Adams Gibbons Available online through Hathitrust.org

Written by Charles Lentheric and Translated by Charles West, 1895Available through Hathitrust.org

Colours of the French Riviera, Photo by James Hetherington. Obtained with Creative Commons on Flickr.

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Two proper, middle-class English women, bored with their lives and their passionless husbands, spend a month on vacation in a medieval villa on the Italian Riviera. The idyllic hideaway holds a special magic, which reawakens hopes of a sunnier, more colorful future.
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French Riviera, photograph by Paul Rysz.  Obtained on flickr with a Creative Commons license.

Portofino, Rivera Italiana.  Photograph by Pedro de Carvalho Ponchio.  Obtained on flickr with a Creative Commons license.