Holiday Letters From Athens, Cairo, and Weimar
Matilda Betham -Edwards
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books, Feb. 1, 2018)
Excerpt from Holiday Letters From Athens, Cairo, and WeimarSpring. What a quiet bay it is, a very bear asleep! Untroubled grey water, pale, nu changeable sky, were all that we saw for several days. As we get farther and farther south, the sea becomes purple, the sky of a deep blue, the nights wondrously lovely with myriads of stars. There is an astronomer on board, and it is his delight to gather a few of his fellow-passengers around him, and gaze with them on Polaris, 'the sailor's friend and guide, the blue Spica, the fiery red Arcturus, Aldebaran, the poetic Pleiades, pointing out this constellation and that, and telling us much that is new and captivating. Our captain, too, like all sailors, had studied the heavens, and many a time I paced the.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.