Sketches of a Yachting Cruise: By [ernest] Gambier-Parry
Sketches of a Yachting Cruise: By [ernest] Gambier-Parry
Ernest Gambier Parry
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To write about Greece, as a traveller, is dangerous, for if you treat your travels from a classi- cal point of view you will run into the jaws of that host to whom the topography and literature of Greece is as familiar as that of their own country. On this side, therefore, there seems special room for alarm, and it behoves the writer to be careful. If, however, you eschew matters classical, and determine to deal with- modem Greece alone, you may, perhaps, escape Scylla \ but you will almost cer...tainly fall into Gharybdis. The , classical host will vote that you have shut your eyes to «4 SKETCHES OF A YACHTING CRUISE. the only interesting side of Greece, and the Philhellenic axmy will treat any adverse criticisms as demonstrating a want of confidence in a great nation. One way or the other, therefore, your path is equally beset with thorns, and there seems no way to escape pricking your feet. The best method, if you are neither a scholar nor a Philhellene, seems to be to go straight along the road you have travelled.
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