Around the World in 80 Years by Eric Newby

Author:Eric Newby [Eric Newby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780007404193
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Wedding procession, Molise, Italy

Mother and daughter at Tellaro. The elderly lady on the left acted as housekeeper to D. H. Lawrence when he was living in Tellaro, near Spezia during the First World War.

Souvenir seller, Jerusalem

Jerusalem

Greek Orthodox monk

Jewish children playing

Palestinian quarter of Jerusalem

Palestinian children

Interior of St Katharine’s Monastery, Sinai

GREEK ORTHODOX MONK, ST KATHARINE’S MONASTERY

We went down from the top of Mount Sinai by the old penitential route, which was designed to be ascended rather than descended if one was to appreciate properly its penitential significance. It consisted of thousands of stone steps, variously estimated as being fourteen thousand by an Italian pilgrim called Gucci in 1384; six thousand six hundred and sixty-six by an Arab, Al-Makrizi, who lived from 1364 to 1442, quoting another Arab; three thousand five hundred, source unknown; and five thousand by Richard Pococke, the English Orientalist and traveller, who visited the monastery in 1726. However many there were, and we soon gave up counting them, it must have been an appalling job putting them in position.

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