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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER HI. FIKST VISIT TO THE HOLT LAND. May Day, 1827.?The Start from Park Lane.?London to Dover in Twelve Hours.?Posting through France.?Aged Poor on the Route.?Dangers of Eastern Travel.?The Greek Insurrection and the Powers.?Pirates in the Mediterranean.?Mr. Montefiore Engages a Schooner and is Convoyed to Alexandria by a Sloop of War.?Chase of a Pirate.?From Alexandria to Cairo.?Interview with Mehemet AM.? New Year at Alexandria.?Journey to Jaffa Disguised as Turks.?Reception at Jerusalem.?The Jews of the Holy Land.?The Return Journey.?Battle of Navarino. Admiral Sir William Codrington Intrusts Mr. Montefiore with Despatches.?Home Again.?Mr. Montefiore and H. R. H. the Duke of Clarence. It is May Day in the year 1827?a typical May Day. Not a speck is visible in the gleaming sky, and the trees of Hyde Park are clad in their full robes of green. A concert of carolling and chirping songsters comes from the leafy shadows, and the air is laden with perfume from the flower gardens of the neighborhood. Eight o'clock has not yet struck, but notwithstanding the earliness of the hour one of the houses in Park Lane is already astir. A capacious travelling carriage with four horses stands at the door, and servants are busy packing away valises and trunks, and all the requisites for a protracted journey. Mr. and Mrs. Montefiore are about to undertake theirlong-contemplated visit to the Holy Land, the cradle of their race, the theatre of the most remarkable episodes in its stupendous history. Many a time in the brief holidays snatched from the absorbing occupations of their City life, the worthy and pious couple had laid out plans for a visit in the following year to the hallowed soil in which so much of their historic sympathy centred, but when the time came something always ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217991124 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217991122 |
| Weight | 0.53 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.36 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 156 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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