The Mirage Of Two Buried Cities

Author : John Fletcher Horne
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ISBN 13 : 9781330628386
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book The Mirage of Two Buried Cities (Classic Reprint) written by John Fletcher Horne and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Mirage of Two Buried Cities Four years ago a brochure was published entitled The Buried Cities of Vesuvius, Herculaneum and Pompeii. The very favourable reception accorded to it, and the circumstance that the edition then issued has been exhausted, have encouraged me to revise it, to fill in certain lacun, and to extend it, until it has grown into what is practically a new and much larger work. As to the new title, the captious critic may say that a "bull" has been perpetrated; for how could there be a mirage from what is buried? The reader will realize that I have used the word "mirage" purely in a figurative sense; as the traveller sees the glimmer of cool water and the tall columns of the palm rising in the midst of the African waste, so, I trust, may the reader, as he passes through these pages, behold the bare ruins of which I have to speak clad in a semblance of their former brightness and beauty. A mirage, though it be mocking, is yet a true representation of that which does exist: therefore I hope that I may be able in like manner to conjure up a vision - true, if sometimes blurred - of that which once lived. With many a noteworthy precedent before me, I have not scrupled, as far as my subject needed, to extract a number of instructive and interesting passages from the most trustworthy sources of information; as Montaigne said, "I make others say for me what, either for want of language or want of sense, I cannot so well express." 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."