Mediterranean Moods, Footnotes of Travel in the Islands of Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza, and Sardinia (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: John Ernest Crawford Flitch
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ISBN: 9781332536047
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Excerpt from Mediterranean Moods, Footnotes of Travel in the Islands of Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza, and Sardinia Every traveller, consciously or unconsciously, is in search of certain exalted moments. By the traveller I understand one who is half an exile, kinsman to the Wandering Jew. Not the mere holiday maker. His mood is too undiscriminating. The bare fact of his idleness and the dislocation of his customary habits are a perpetual and delightful miracle. He is the skilful alchemist who can transmute gold into pleasure at will. He carries with him an exhaustless fund of spirits, but no standard of criticism. Every town is a sort of exhibition provided with attractive side-shows. He finds friends stationed everywhere to receive him. He recognises them by the legends on their caps. They come to meet him at the train; they await him at the showplace; if he but glance at them they smile, bend their backs, smooth their hands. Every country is a museum which painstaking people have catalogued for him, recording the result of their research in red-bound volumes suited to his pocket. Providence plays the role of a kind of impresario, achieving telling effects in Alpine or African scenery, filling the stage with picturesque choruses. 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."