Description: Tartarin of Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet, Oliver C. Colt MY first visit to Tartarin of Tarascon has remained a never-to-be-forgotten date in my life; although quite ten or a dozen years ago, I remember it better than yesterday. At that time the intrepid Tartarin lived in the third house on the left as the town begins, on the Avignon road. A pretty little villa in the local style, with a front garden and a balcony behind, the walls glaringly white and the venetians very green; and always about the doorsteps a brood of little Savoyard shoe-blackguards playing hopscotch, or dozing in the broad sunshine with their heads pillowed on their boxes. Outwardly the dwelling had no remarkable features, and none would ever believe it the abode of a hero; but when you stepped inside, ye gods and little fishes! what a change! From turret to foundation-stone-I mean, from cellar to garret, -the whole building wore a heroic front; even so the garden! O that garden of Tartarins! theres not its match in Europe! Not a native tree was there-not one flower of France; nothing hut exotic plants, gum-trees, gourds, cotton-woods, cocoa and cacao, mangoes, bananas, palms, a baobab, nopals, cacti, Barbary figs-well, you would believe yourself in the very midst of Central Africa, ten thousand leagues away. It is but fair to say that these were none of full growth; indeed, the cocoa-palms were no bigger than beet root and the baobab (arbos gigantea-"giant tree," you know) was easily enough circumscribed by a window-pot; but, notwithstanding this, it was rather a sensation for Tarascon, and the townsfolk who were admitted on Sundays to the honour of contemplating Tartarins baobab, went home chokeful of admiration. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Details ISBN1544286902 Author Oliver C. Colt Pages 100 Language English Year 2017 ISBN-10 1544286902 ISBN-13 9781544286907 Format Paperback Publication Date 2017-03-25 Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Translator Oliver C. Colt DEWEY FIC Audience Children / Juvenile We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:130105118;
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