Pastels Under the Southern Cross (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Margaret Louisa Woods
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780364389645
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Excerpt from Pastels Under the Southern Cross It an error to suppose that a person who has only spent a few months in a country must necessarily have nothing to say about it which is worth saying. Once people put too much faith in the Man who had been there. Now, if we wish to pass for intelligent, we sometimes fall into the Opposite error. For it may often happen that though the inhabitant knows most, the visitor sees most. He sees those broad outlines which eyes necessarily riveted on details, end by losing. And a visitor is there to see. In places where we live our energies are largely spent in doing. A visitor is freed from cares and occupations. All his mental energies, all such knowledge of life and powers of observation as he may have acquired elsewhere, are focused on the country and people with which he is making acquaintance. Although myself an Oxonian of long standing, I have often found articles on Oxford by foreigners who had spent but a short time there, illuminating, even when many of their facts were wrong or misapprehended. As to scenery, without doubt those characteristics of a landscape which differentiate it from other landscapes are more obvious to strange than to accustomed eyes, however much these latter may miss of its intimate secrets. There are not a great many far-off places in the world which are worth visiting solely for the beauty of their scenery. To begin with, the sense of beauty may be feasted high within the. 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.