Nicholas Penny looks through the first complete translation of the letters Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau wrote to his divorced wife on his trip to England, Ireland and Wales in the 1820s.
The letters of Hermann von Pückler-Muskau
Nicholas Penny
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