Download or read book Barbary the Romance of the Nearest East Classic Reprint written by A. Maccallum Scott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Barbary the Romance of the Nearest East This is the thought which continually besets me as I travel South through the changing cities - London, Paris, Avignon, Marseilles, to Algiers. This is the thought which obtrudes when I first Sight, across the Mediterranean, the mountains of Africa; as I listen to the Moorish music or watch the Moorish dancers, and the orgies of the dervishes who pierce their flesh with swords; as I pass through the Grande Mosquée built of the wreckage of Rome; as I wander through the ruined Roman cities; as I trace on the Roman frontier the same plan that can be traced along the walls of Hadrian and Antonine in Britain; as I look down from the mountains upon the sand storms sweeping across the Sahara; as I follow the footsteps of the Phoenicians, and of that older race which has left us Stonehenge; as I climb the Mountain of Two Horns, the High Place whereon stood the Altar of Baal; as I stand by the tomb of the Priest of Baal and listen to the bells pealing from the great Cathedral with which Cardinal Lavigerie has crowned the Bursa of Carthage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
Download or read book Barbary The Romance of the Near East written by Alexander MacCallum Scott and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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