On Blue Water #248101

It has been well said that the beauty Of De Amicis' travels is that they are more than travels. They are not merely the record Of so many passages a day; they are travellings plus seeings, listenings, feelings, thinkings, talkings, love-makings — all that a warm hearted, imaginative, educated young tourist would engage in; yet they are told without displeasing egotism or tedious detail.