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Wayfaring Sketches Among the Greeks and Turks, and on the Shores of the Danube, by a Seven Years' Resident in Greece [F.M.F. Skene].

Wayfaring Sketches Among the Greeks and Turks, and on the Shores of the Danube, by a Seven Years' Resident in Greece [F.M.F. Skene].


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847. Excerpt: ... INTRODUCTION. 9 feelings with which we leave it, must, therefore, be very different from those of the tourists who visit these shores in the ordinary manner. Ten days or a fortnight is usually considered by the visitor a sufficient length of time for the performance of all that is incumbent on him during his stay, according to the established rules of sight-seeing. He can explore the ruins of the capital, visit the Temple of Jupiter by moonlight, and watch the sunset from the Parthenon; he can climb Mount Pentelicus, and fail to see the plain of Marathon from the summit--for which purpose he ascended; he may drive to Eleusis, there to wonder what has become of the ruins; and go to Mars Hill to read the seventeenth chapter of the Acts; and to Salamis, to quote Lord Byron's poems; and then, having descanted on the admirable preservation of the Temple of Theseus, deplored the fading beauty of the "maid of Athens," and gathered together a few mistaken notions on the political movements in Greece, from persons interested in falsifying her present position, he departs, carrying with him a confused recollection of heat, and dust, and gay costumes, beautiful ruins and uncomfortable inns. This is the general routine pursued by travellers; and if they have no higher object than to beguile the tedium of a portion of their brief life, and store the treasurehouses of their memory with fair images that shall hereafter flash upon their midnight dreams in the likeness of some glorious temple, with its snowy columns cleaving the deep blue air, or. of some lonely fount with myrtles wreathing over it, and stars that gleam within its waters, --then such a visit as this is amply adequate to the purpose; but it would have been better, perhaps, if some of those who have given th...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150234842
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 102
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150234849
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 195 gr


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