Among The Moors Sketches Of Oriental Life PDF Download

Excerpt from Among the Moors: Sketches of Oriental Life When you cross the immense wastes of the Moghreb, its gloomy plains, its denuded table-lands; when you pass through its dead cities where glide noiselessly these spectres clad in white, whose forefathers conquered Spain; when your eyes rest on these shattered monuments, marvels of architecture, that slowly crumble away under their shrouds of moss and lichen; when you tread the accursed soil of this Empire which its inhabitants, full of morbid indifference for the present, devoid of any regret for the past or hope in the future, allow to fall into ruins without making an effort to retard its decay; in presence of this absolute depression, this complete collapse, you cannot help being painfully impressed as at the sight of a moribund. 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.