Bayard Taylor

Egypt and Iceland: in the Year 1874 (Classic Reprint) Bayard Taylor

Publisher Marketing: Excerpt from Egypt and Iceland: In the Year 1874 Alexandria, Egypt, March 14, 1874. When we passed Crete, two days ago, the north wind - the very same "Euroclydon" which once so interfered with the voyage of St. Paul - grew finally tired of blowing, and a light breeze, with the promise of summer on its wings, stole over the waters from the unseen Libyan shore. The gales which have convulsed the Mediterranean this winter left only a long, uneasy swell behind them, and we were even glad to escape the sight of land, coupled as it was in Sicily and Calabria and Crete with that of abundant snow. Winter is never so wearisome as when one is trying to escape it. I saw Egypt for the last time in 1852, when steamers were just beginning to ply upon the Nile, and a line of very rude omnibuses crossed the desert from Cairo to Suez about once a month. 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. Contributor Bio:  Taylor, Bayard Bayard Taylor (1825-1878), American author, was born at Ken-nett Square in Chester county, Pennsylvania, on the 11th of January 1825. His novel, Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania (1870), which he considered his most successful work despite it being re-ceived poorly by the public, recounts an intimate friendship between two men and is believed to be based on that between the poets Fitz-Green Halleck and Joseph Rodman Drake. The book is now regarded as the first American gay novel. It was published fifty-eight years be-fore British author Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness (1928).