The Road To Oxiana Robert Byron 30 İndirim — Robert Byron

Robert Byron tarafından kaleme alınan The Station Travels to the Holy Mountain of Greece Platanus Publishing eseri olarak okurlarla buluşuyor The Station Travels to the Holy Mountain of Greece Robert Byron Kitap Özeti Letters from foreign countries arrive in the afternoon Each envelope advertises a break in the monotony of days each reveals on penetration only one more facet of a standard world But latterly another kind has come strangely addressed stranger still within We learn runs one that you are safely returned to your own glorious country and are already in the midst of your dearest ones enjoying the best of health PS We have experienced no cold this year hitherto I am proud says another that the all bountiful God has allowed us to see you again May he guard you from all evil world without end Send me from England ten metres of black stuff that I may make a gown As the unfamiliar hieroglyphics resolve memory evokes the senders their fellows and the weeks of their company Till the whole excursion into their impalpable world stands defined as the limits of a sleep But the experience being personal is framed in a larger retrospect The colour of their environment lives by contrast with my own Without that measure its romance fades away Yayınevi Platanus Publishing Yazar Robert Byron Sayfa 254 Sayfa Kağıt 2 Hamur Boyut 14 00x21 00 cm Basım Yılı Nisan 2020 Barkod 9786257068192 Kategori Gezi ve Rehber Kitapları Gezi

A northerly wind flecks the sapphire sea with white and has silenced those exuberant Jews below Yesterday we sailed past the Ionian Islands The familiar shores looked arid and unpeopled but invincibly beautiful through the rosy air At the south west corner of Greece we turned east passed Kalamata in its bay and came to Cape Matapan which I last saw from Taygetus outlined by the distant sea as though on a map The rocky faces turned to ruddy gold the shadows to a gauzy blue The sun sank Greece became a ragged silhouette and the southernmost lighthouse of Europe began to wink Round the corner in the next bay twinkled the electricity of Gytheion