The Greek Islands (2011)
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Samos is separated from the mainland by a small gap hardly two kilometres in length. To me, the approach to this famous island is more beautiful than the island itself. You travel, by magnificent sea-roads, as if across the heart of some fine old Victorian steel-engraving by Lear or Landseer, among headlands and promontories of unstudied grandeur, which the Victorian traveller always described as ‘sublime’. It is sublime. After this approach, the island itself, despite its harsh backbone of moun...tain, despite the grizzled head of Mount Cerceteus which lifts itself up to nearly 5000 feet (1520 m), is a little disappointing.
Chios, twenty miles away, boasts of Homer, while Samos can only put up one tyrant of genius and a mathematician called Aristarchus – who has no right to be as little known as he is, for, after all, his heliocentric notions of the heavens anticipated Copernicus by some two thousand years. Fertility was the essence of classical Samos, and provided it with even more nicknames than Rhodes.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Samos is separated from the mainland by a small gap hardly two kilometres in length. To me, the approach to this famous island is more beautiful than the island itself. You travel, by magnificent sea-roads, as if across the heart of some fine old Victorian steel-engraving by Lear or Landseer, among headlands and promontories of unstudied grandeur, which the Victorian traveller always described as ‘sublime’. It is sublime. After this approach, the island itself, despite its harsh backbone of moun...tain, despite the grizzled head of Mount Cerceteus which lifts itself up to nearly 5000 feet (1520 m), is a little disappointing.
Chios, twenty miles away, boasts of Homer, while Samos can only put up one tyrant of genius and a mathematician called Aristarchus – who has no right to be as little known as he is, for, after all, his heliocentric notions of the heavens anticipated Copernicus by some two thousand years. Fertility was the essence of classical Samos, and provided it with even more nicknames than Rhodes.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Lawrence Durrell to read onlineMoreLess
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