Beyond the Tweed: A Tour of Scotland in 1858

This delightful account of a journey around Scotland with the artist Bernhard von Lepel as companion reads as freshly today as when first published. Fontane wrote Beyond the Tweed before becoming a celebrated novelist; it is a product of his years of working in Britain as a journalist, where he developed a deep love of English and Scottish history and culture, of Shakespeare, Walter Scott, and of Scottish ballads.