Strange Lands Near Home (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Strange Lands Near Home The Bahama Sea is perhaps the most beautiful of all waters. Columbus beheld it and its islands with a poet's eye. It only needed the singing of the nightingale, said the joyful mariner, to make it like Anda lusia in April and to his mind Andalusia was the loveliest place on earth. In sailing among these gardens of the sea in the serene and trans parent autumn days after the great discovery, the soul of Columbus was at times overwhelmed and entranced by a sense of the beauty of everything in it and about it. Life seemed, as it were, a spiritual vision. 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.