Exploration & Journeys
Desirable Alien at Home in Germany
Ford Madox Ford, Violet Hunt
2026
11h 14m$1.99
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Ford wanted German citizenship so that he could get a divorce, and Violet Hunt went along with him. The result is a strange domestic travel account of the Rhineland and Prussia, the relatives, the spa towns and the manners, written by an Englishwoman being introduced to a country as a family matter, a few years before the two nations set about destroying each other.
Inside this audiobook
27 chapters
- 1Preface11m
- 2Ch 1: Introduction: How one becomes an alien33m
- 3Ch 2: Harem skirts, storks and some social amenities25m
- 4Ch 3: Sleepy hollow30m
- 5Ch 4: Utopia14m
- 6Ch 5: Pax Germanica: servants, fairy tales and tailors26m
- 7Ch 6a: Beer gardens v. bear gardens23m
- 8Ch 6b: Beer gardens v. bear gardens cont.22m
- 9Ch 7: Princes and prescriptions35m
- 10Ch 8: Blue pates and Schoppen39m
- 11Ch 9: Chests and costumes35m
- 12Ch 10: Waiters and policemen21m
- 13Ch 11: A Landgräfin and her confessor18m
- 14Ch 12: Lions and lace curtains23m
- 15Ch 13: Grand dukes and gipsies18m
- 16Ch 14: Great danes, geese, mice and schoolmasters32m
- 17Ch 15: "Drizzling" and officers25m
- 18Ch 16: How it feels to be members of subject races20m
- 19Ch 17a: Queens discrowned38m
- 20Ch 17b: Queens discrowned cont.25m
- 21Ch 18: Bones, babies and anabaptists14m
- 22Ch 19: Celle24m
- 23Ch 20a: Trier24m
- 24Ch 20b: Trier cont.27m
- 25Ch 21a: Take us little foxes27m
- 26Ch 21b: Take us little foxes cont.30m
- 27Ch 22: Envoi14m
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