Sybil Fitzgerald
Published: 2015-07-27
Total Pages: 574
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Excerpt from Naples To approach Naples to the best advantage, you must go by sea. A wide view is before us of the headlands, softened by distance, and of the harbour, which lies like a great opal reflecting colours and sunshine as glowing as those of the East, and yet far softer. There is some.5 thing Homeric in the setting of this cluster of sea-washed towns, extending in a wide half-circle from Posillipo to Sorrento. In the near background rises the most celebrated volcano in the world, purple Vesuvius, whose. 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.