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The Automobilist Abroad
Francis Miltoun (Milburg Francisco Mansfield) was a writer, and his travels with his wife, Blanche McManus, led to a series of travel books, fully illustrated by McManus.
Castles and Chateaux of Old Navarre and the Basque Provinces
THIS book is no record of exploitation or discovery; it is simply a review of many things seen and heard anent that marvellous and comparatively little known region vaguely described as “the Pyrenees,” of which the old French provinces (and before them the independent kingdoms, countships and dukedoms) of Béarn, Navarre, Foix and Roussillon are the chief and most familiar. The region has been known as a touring ground for long years, and mountain climbers who have tired of the monotony of the Alps have found much here to quicken their jaded appetites. Besides this, there is a wealth of historic fact and a quaintness of men and manners throughout all this wonderful country of infinite va...
The Cathedrals of Northern and Southern France
An attempt to enumerate the architectural monuments of France is not possible without due consideration being given to the topographical divisions of the country, which, so far as the early population and the expression of their arts and customs is concerned, naturally divides itself into two grand divisions of influences, widely dissimilar. Historians, generally, agree that the country which embraces the Frankish influences in the north, as distinct from that where are spoken the romance languages, finds its partition somewhere about a line drawn from the mouth of the Loire to the Swiss lakes. Territorially, this approaches an equal division, with the characteristics of architectural forms ...
Royal Palaces and Parks of France
The modern traveller sees something beyond mere facts. Historical material as identified with the life of some great architectural glory is something more than a mere repetition of chronologies; the sidelights and the co-related incidents, though indeed many of them may be but hearsay, are quite as interesting, quite as necessary, in fact, for the proper appreciation of a famous palace or chateau as long columns of dates, or an evolved genealogical tree which attempts to make plain that which could be better left unexplained. The glamour of history would be considerably dimmed if everything was explained, and a very seamy block of marble may be chiselled into a very acceptable statue if the ...
Why Look at Plants?
Winner of the 2019 Outstanding Academic Titles award in Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Why Look at Plants? proposes a thought-provoking and fascinating look into the emerging cultural politics of plant-presence in contemporary art. Through the original contributions of artists, scholars, and curators who have creatively engaged with the ultimate otherness of plants in their work, this volume maps and problematizes new intra-active, agential interconnectedness involving human-non-human biosystems central to artistic and philosophical discourses of the Anthropocene. Plant’s fixity, perceived passivity, and resilient silence have relegated the vegetal world to the cultural background of human civilization. However, the recent emergence of plants in the gallery space constitutes a wake-up-call to reappraise this relationship at a time of deep ecological and ontological crisis. Why Look at Plants? challenges readers’ pre-established notions through a diverse gathering of insights, stories, experiences, perspectives, and arguments encompassing multiple disciplines, media, and methodologies.
The Automobilist Abroad
Milburg Francisco Mansfield (1871-? ), who also wrote under the pseudonym Francis Miltoun, was an American author and publisher. He had an apparently short-lived publishing house, M. F. Mansfield and Co., later to be known as M. F. Mansfield and A. Wessels. Around 1900, he travelled with his artist wife Blanche McManus throughout Europe and North Africa. Their collaboration led to a series of travel books, fully illustrated by McManus, which incorporated the newly invented automobile within a typical travelogue of the period. They lived in Paris when not travelling. Mansfield's works include: Ships and Shipping (1903), The Cathedrals of Northern France (1904), Dickens' London (1904), Rambles in Normandy (1905), Rambles in Brittany (1905), Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine (1905), Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country (1906), The Automobilist Abroad (1907), Castles and Chateaux of Old Navarre and the Basque Provinces (1907), In the Land of Mosques and Minerets (1908), The Spell of Algeria and Tunisia (1908), Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor-Car (1909) and Royal Palaces and Parks of France (1910).
