The Kingdom Of Georgia Notes Of Travel In A Land Of Woman Wine And Song To Which Are Appended Historical Literary And Political Sketches Specime PDF Download

Excerpt from The Kingdom of Georgia: Notes of Travel in a Land of Woman, Wine and Song, to Which Are Appended Historical, Literary, and Political Sketches, Specimens of the National Music, and a Compendious Bibliography There were four of us - two Frenchmen, an Italian, and an Englishman. We had ridden from Damascus to Baalbek, and had seen the ruins; after dinner, we were lying on heaps of cushions on the floor, in a hostelry little known to Europeans. For some minutes the bubbling of our narghiles was the only sound that broke the stillness of the night. Then the excuirassier spoke out in a strong voice - the voice of a man accustomed to command - "Gentlemen! I propose that we solemnly pass a vote of censure on the late M. de Lamartine," "Bravo!" was our unanimous cry; and the vote was carried, nemine contrcidicente. A rider was added, to the effect that poets should be discouraged from writing books of travel. "Surely a strange proceeding!" 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.