Vistas in Sicily
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Excerpt from Vistas in SicilyThe first of the historic foreigners to enter were the Phoenicians, the Canaanites of the Old Testa ment, who lived in Tyre and Sidon and the other cities that lay in the narrow strip of lowland be tween Mt. Lebanon and the Mediterranean. They spoke Hebrew, as the Israelites did, but their wor ship was the foul and bloody service of Baal and Ashtaroth. They were the boldest seafaring men in the world; the most cunning traders, who came to barter the Tyrian purple, the glass, the gold jewelry, and the little images of their own manu facture with the rude and primiti...
Chapters (24)
- V I S T A S I N S I C I L Y
- CONTENTS
- THE ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- Vistas in Sicily I DISCOVERY
- II PALERMO
- III A NIGHT OF DISSIPATION
- IV CATHEDRALS
- V PALACES AND PEOPLE
- VI THE PLAIN OF PANORMOS
- VII AROUND THE ISLAND
- VIII THE ROAD TO SYRACUSE
- IX THE HARBOR AND THE ANAPO
- X SYRACUSE, THE PENTAPOLIS
- XI CATANIA AND MOUNT ÆTNA
- XII TAORMINA
- XIII SOME MOUNTAIN VISTAS
- XIV LIGHTS AND SHADES
- XV THE CITY THAT WAS
- XVI THE NORTHERN SHORE
- XVII THE WESTERN SHORE
- XVIII ADDIO, SICILIA!
- THE BEST BOOKS ON SICILY
- INDEX
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