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Title: Afloat
(Sur l'eau)

Author: Guy de Maupassant

Illustrator: Riou

Translator: Laura Ensor

Release Date: June 29, 2015 [EBook #49318]

Language: English

Produced by Dagny and Marc D'Hooghe at http://www.freeliterature.org (Images generously made available by the Hathi Trust)


This Diary contains no story and no very thrilling adventure. While cruising about on the coasts of the Mediterranean last Spring, I amused myself by writing down every day what I saw
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One of the finest travelogues you’ll ever read. It has my highest recommendation.
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