
Language
en
Duration
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Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Charles Franks, Robert Rowe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. HTML version by Al Haines.
Release date
2003-03-01
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1856–1928
Best remembered for lively memoirs of diplomacy, politics, and travel, this British aristocrat had a sharp eye for social detail and a gift for entertaining stories. He is also often credited with introducing skiing to Canada after bringing skis from Russia in the 1880s.
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