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| TED WRITES FOREWORD TO NEW EDITION A new edition of Tobias Smollett’s Travels through France and Italy, with a Foreword by Ted Jones, is to be released by I B Tauris on August 31. The book, originally published almost 2½ centuries ago, was an immediate best-seller in its day. It is a record of Smollett's stay in Nice between 1763 and 1765 and tells of his journeys on the Riviera and in northern and central Italy during that period. Today, more than ten million people a year visit the French Riviera to enjoy its beaches, its scenery and its climate. Tobias George Smollett, Scottish surgeon, novelist and translator, was among the first of them, and the publication of his book, Travels through France and Italy, his only travel book, is acknowledged as the beginning of the French Riviera’s transformation from an isolated cluster of fishing villages to the sophisticated international holiday destination it is today. The city of Nice, now France’s fourth largest city, showed its gratitude by naming one of its streets after him. The book is written as a collection of 41 letters to friends and colleagues at home - a device he would later use so effectively in his most successful novelThe Expedition of Humphry Clinker. As an author, Smollett was an inspiration both to his contemporary writers and to many who came after him, his most enthusiastic fan being Charles Dickens, who, as a boy, read and reread Smollett’s works, quoting them in his own favourite novel, David Copperfield. As a Riviera resident and author of a literary guide to the region, The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers, Ted is uniquely qualified to preface the new edition of this important work. Order Travels through France and Italy from I. B. Tauris. |
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| About Ted Jones Ted Jones is a free-lance writer whose journalistic output is wide-ranging. His travel articles have appeared in publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including British magazines Choice, The Lady, Wanderlust, France, Yesterday and Living France, and American publications such as France Today, Writers' Journal, Transitions Abroad and Voyageur. His articles on business management have been published worldwide in several languages and his short stories and poetry have won a number of awards. As a writer for The Guardian he has published articles on subjects as diverse as modern jazz and horse-racing. |
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New York Times, 30th July 2006:
click here to read Staff writer Seth Sherwood’s article The Barefoot Riviera, which refers exclusively to THE FRENCH RIVIERA: A Literary Guide for Travellers.
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