Tales of a Traveller
Tales of a Traveller,32 stories and sketches by Irving, published in 1824. The volume, resembling its predecessors The Sketch Book and Bracebridge Hall, was the product of notes and anecdotes gathered mainly during a tour of Germany (1822–23). The first three sections deal with European backgrounds: Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman, Buckthorne and His Friends, and The Italian Banditti; while the fourth section, The Money-Diggers, contains five tales “found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker,” set in New York, and dealing with buried-treasure legends about Captain Kidd and other pirates.
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