# A Motor-Flight Through France

Author: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937

Genre: Category: Travel Writing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57347

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+Motor-Flight+Through+France+Wharton&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Freeing us from all the compulsions and contacts of the railway, the bondage to fixed hours and the beaten track, the approach to each town through the area of ugliness and desolation created by the railway itself, it has given us back the wonder, the adventure and the novelty which enlivened the way of our posting grand-parents. Above all these recovered pleasures must be ranked the delight of taking a town unawares, stealing on it by back ways and unchronicled paths, and surprising in it some intimate aspect of past time, some silhouette hidden for half a century or more by the ugly mask of railway embankments and the iron bulk of a huge station. Then the villages that we missed and yea...

## Chapters

- [PART II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-motor-flight-through-france-57347/chapters/5/index.md)
- [PART I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-motor-flight-through-france-57347/chapters/4/index.md)
- [PART III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-motor-flight-through-france-57347/chapters/6/index.md)
- [PART III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-motor-flight-through-france-57347/chapters/3/index.md)
- [PART I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-motor-flight-through-france-57347/chapters/1/index.md)
- [PART II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-motor-flight-through-france-57347/chapters/2/index.md)