Five Castles. Old and New from the Mark Brandenburg. Large Brandenburg Edition. "If I reflect on my own travels, I come to the conclusion that I have had much, much more inspiration, pleasure, and health from short trips nearby than from the great journeys, which are very exhausting, very costly, and mostly humiliating... However, in Teupitz and Wusterhausen, and especially in Prignitz and Havelland, I have always been happy," confessed Fontane. This volume captures the multitude of drafts and material collections found in the partly unpublished estate related to the thematic context of the "Wanderungen," which are systematically compiled here for the first time and aim to entice readers into real "short trips" and thoughtful strolls through the Mark, to Mecklenburg, and into Berlin. "Stories from Mark Brandenburg" and "The Little Land of Friesack and the Br.