Daunt Books for Travellers
Mar 29th, 2007 by Eats Wombats
Marylebone High Street is about 5 minutes walk from my home. One of its attractions is Daunt’s bookshop.
It’s a very good travel bookshop and it can be a dangerous place to visit if you are a booklover. You can get a feeling of wellbeing just by walking in and savouring the atmosphere.
As the bookmark they give you with each book says: “The heart of Daunt Books is an original Edwardian bookshop with long oak galleries and graceful skylights. Its soul is the unique arrangement of books by country where guides, novels and non-fiction of all kinds will interest traveller and browser alike.”
Browsing in “France” last summer I came across Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, but was disappointed to find that 1 of the 7 volumes, all new, was missing. I passed, and stocked up on Bourdain instead–I had an oyster instead of a madelaine.
All 7 volumes of Proust are available online here (in Australia; the link in France, is perdu at the moment), but I can’t think of anything I’d sooner reader on paper.
These photos were taken yesterday on my way home from the High Street.
