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A GOOD book on the Canary Islands, which have been of so much service to many an invalid, has long been wanted; for, as Mrs. Stone says, many parts even of the best-known islands of Tenerife and Gran Canaria are untrodden ground to English people, and are but little known to persons of any other nationality. Mrs. Stone supplies all the information that can be needed by the most exacting visitor to the islands, or by persons who may wish to read about them at home. As she has already shown in her “Norway in June,” she has excellent powers of observation, and knows how to give a clear and effective account of all that she sees in her travels. In the present work her descriptions are all the more vivid because they were written “on the spot,” when everything she wished to set down in her narrative was still fresh in her mind. To the Island of Hierro, to which she and her husband seem to have been the first English visitors, she devotes a good deal of attention; and what she has to say about that “solitary, happy, singular” island is full of interest, and would alone have justified her, if justification had been necessary, in making her travels in the Canary Islands the subject of a book. In an appendix she presents a useful epitome of all necessary expenses connected with her tour.
Tenerife, and its Six Satellites.
By Olivia M. Stone. In Two Vols. (London: Marcus Ward, 1887.)
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Our Book Shelf . Nature 37, 221 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037221a0
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