Faces and Places

About this film

LibriVox recording of Faces and Places by Henry W. Lucy. Read by Ruth Golding. (Re-recorded February, 2010) Faces and Places is a collection of articles on nineteenth century travel, events and personalities by the British journalist Henry Lucy, who wrote for the Daily News, a London newspaper. His open letter To Those About to Become Journalists rings as true today as when it was written. The travel tales A Night on a Mountain , Oysters and Arcachon , Easter on Les Avants , and Mosquitoes and Monaco provide an entertaining view of the Victorian Englishman in Europe. "Fred" Burnaby includes a lively account of a balloon trip as well as a biography of the Victorian soldier and adventurer, while Night and Day on the Cars in Canada relates Lucy's experiences of rail travel. Three of the pieces, Peggotty and Ham , A Cinque Port , and Christmas Eve at Watts's , concern the county of Kent, where Lucy had a country house at Hythe. Christmas Eve at Watts's throws an interesting light on Dickens' short story The Seven Poor Travellers . Other articles are of historical interest: A Wreck in the North Sea is an account of the wreck of the ship "Deutschland" in 1875; A Historic Crowd describes…

Directors & creators

Henry W. Lucy

Subjects

librivox; audiobook; essays; satire; travel; preachers; balloon flight; railway; Rochester; Six Poor Travellers; Cinque Port; Hythe; Lydd; Deutschland; Burnaby; Tichborne claimant; Merthyr; strike; Edward VII; mosquito; Monaco; Monte Carlo; House of Commons; Moody; Fiddler Joss; Bendigo; Dean Stanley; Spurgeon; Ragged Church; Gladstone; Disraeli; Arcachon; oyster; Richard Watts; journalism

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