Timeless writing. Iconic destinations.
“…the city had grown like a tree, forming ring after ring…”
"…the joy and sorrow, the life and death, the grandeur and decay, of five thousand slow revolving years."
“…rambling the streets of London.”
“He saw the darkening lands slipping away past him…”
"...irrepressible... even among dust and stones."
"...a long wall of rock, sheering in like a thousand-foot wave towards the middle of the valley..."
"The breeze of morning... the smell of leaves... the sharp smell of the sea."
“It is a noise something like rain, or banana leaves in a wind.”
“…composed of all the innocence of the present, and of all the passion of the future.”
"...the lighthouses flashing in the distance, and ship lights on the water, and the dark places..."
“…the mighty Alps, whose white and shining pyramids and domes towered above all, as belonging to another earth…”