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A childhood reading of Mediterranean travels gives Albert Bigelow Paine a lasting wish to visit distant shores. His account begins with family evenings around a book in an Illinois farmhouse, then follows the grown narrator as he studies cruise advertisements and chooses the Grosser Kurfürst. The promise of generous provisions helps settle a decision that once belonged entirely to childhood dreams.
The cruise takes in Mediterranean ports and sites in the Middle East, with chapters on Athens, Damascus, Jerusalem and Egypt. Paine combines memories, observations of ancient places and jokes at his own expense. Near Ephesus, a small piece of marble leaves him nervously rehearsing explanations whenever strangers approach his donkey party. Readers interested in early tourist travel will find both the attraction of famous ruins and the comic anxieties of a visitor trying to enjoy them.
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- Albert Bigelow Paine
- Pages
- 212
- Language
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