Six Months in a Syrian Monastery (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Six Months in a Syrian Monastery: Being the Record of a Visit to the Headquarters of the Syrian Church in Mesopotamia, With Some Account of the Yazidis or Devil Worshippers of Mosul and El Jilwah, Their Sacred BookAs in old days the tide of conquest flowed westward, it is but natural that the ebb of travel should return towards the East. Year by year the region of romance is narrowed, and places which once were names for travellers to conjure with are brought one by one within the reach of spring and summer tourists. Romance now lurks beyond the Karakoram ranges or in Japan, scared away from the more familiar haunts of Syria and Greece. Nor can the prerogative of travellers in Turkey to tell lies, which Landor tells us was in his time undisputed, be any longer exercised.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.