{"product_id":"in-chateau-land-von-anne-hollingsworth-wharton-3","title":"In Château Land","description":"\u003cp\u003eYou will be surprised, dear Margaret, to have a letter from me here instead of from \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTouraine. We fully intended to go directly from the Dolomites and Venice to Milan and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eon to Tours, stopping a day or two in Paris en route, but Miss Cassandra begged for a \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efew days on Lake Como, as in all her travels by sea and shore she has never seen the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eItalian lakes. We changed our itinerary simply to be obliging, but Walter and I have had \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eno reason to regret the change for one minute. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautiful as you and I found this region in June, I must admit that its August charms are \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emore entrancing and pervasive. Instead of the clear blues, greens and purples of June, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe light haze that veils the mountain tops brings out the same indescribable opalescent \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshades of heliotrope, azure and rose that we thought belonged exclusively to the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDolomites. However, these mountains are first cousins, once or twice removed, to the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEastern Italian and Austrian Alps and have a good right to a family likeness. There is \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esomething almost intoxicating in the ethereal beauty of this lake, something that goes to \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eone's head like wine. I don't wonder that poets and artists rave about its charms, of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhich not the least is its infinite variety. The scene changes so quickly. The glow of color \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efades, a cloud obscures the sun, the blue and purple turn to gray in an instant, and we \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edescend from a hillside garden, where gay flowers gain added brilliancy from the sun, to \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea cypressbordered path where the grateful shade is so dense that we walk in twilight and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elisten to the liquid note of the nightingale, or the blackcap, whose song is sometimes \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emistaken for that of his more distinguished neighbor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9791041984107\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eExploring the Cultural and Historical Landscapes of Italy and Switzerland\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9791041984107","offer_id":47601218060613,"sku":"9791041984107","price":20.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/bcd73e53-13fa-4894-8c5c-00670640b5b5.jpg?v=1767428441","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/in-chateau-land-von-anne-hollingsworth-wharton-3","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}