Over Strand and Field: A Record of Travel through Brittany

A travel narrative recounts journeys through northern and western France, moving from Loire châteaux to Breton coasts and towns. Each chapter focuses on a site—castles, rocky peninsulas, megalithic alignments, fishing ports, abbeys and cemeteries—and offers close, sensory description of architecture, landscape, ruins, local customs, and everyday people. The author records vivid scenes and small episodes—market life, inns, mail routes, and unusual burial practices—while reflecting on historical change, decay, and regional character. The structure is episodic and observational, combining topographical detail with aesthetic and sometimes ironic commentary that illuminates the region's physical textures and human rhythms.