tion>Robert Curzon
Visits to Monasteries in the Levant
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4057664580719
Table of Contents
PART I.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
PART II.
JERUSALEM AND THE MONASTERY OF ST. SABBA. 1834.
PART III.
PART IV.
THE MONASTERIES OF MOUNT ATHOS.
PREFACE.
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In presenting to the public another book of travels in the East, when it is already overwhelmed with little volumes about palm-trees and camels, and reflections on the Pyramids, I am aware that I am committing an act which requires some better excuse for so unwarrantable an intrusion on the patience of the reader than any that I am able to offer.
The origin of these pages is as follows:—I was staying by myself in an old country-house belonging to my family, but not often inhabited
