A Guide to the Western Alps (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Guide to the Western AlpsIF it be a task of no slight difficulty to provide the traveller with a tolerably correct and complete guide-book through any part of the Alps, experience soon proves to the writer that his labour is very far from ceasing when he has at length given his work to the public. The large and constantly increasing number of active travellers who visit the less known and less frequented districts, the extension of new roads, and the Open ing of new inns, are amongst the prominent causes that neces sitate constant revision and correction. On going Carefully through the sheets of the present volume, the writer has found with surprise that, since the appearance of the first edition, in 1863, and even since the last edition was given to the public, such extensive changes have occurred that it has become necessary to rewrite many routes, and to introduce elsewhere extensive corrections and additions.Having endeavoured to bring the work as nearly as possible up to the required mark at the present time, he is aware that a similar process of correction will be required after another interval of two or three years, and he trusts that the kind assistance of travellers who, by communicating information, have hitherto materially aided him in the performance of his work, will not be withheld from him in the future.In case he should, through inadvertence, have failed directly to convey his acknowledgments to any of those who have favoured him with information, he takes this occasion to apolo gise for the omission.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.