New edition of the classic for the 250th birthday of François René de Chateaubriand on September 4, 2018, in a bibliophile format and with an afterword by Karl-Heinz Ott. In overwhelming descriptions of landscapes, François-René Chateaubriand (1768-1848) depicts his childhood in Brittany. We experience the sea, the vastness, the heath as if with our own eyes, as if nature has remained the same there for two hundred years, while everything around it changes radically. Chateaubriand's life reflects entire epochs. The new translation by Karl-Heinz Ott begins with Chateaubriand's birth in Saint-Malo and extends through the storming of the Bastille, which he witnessed firsthand, to his departure for America. Chateaubriand is regarded as the greatest stylist of the French language. Those who read him will never forget the images with which he creates entire worlds, from the smallest to the largest.