The Station: Travels to the Holy Mountain of Greece
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Book Overview
Mount Athos, the spiritual heart of Eastern Orthodox Monasticism, is perhaps the most sacred and mysterious place in Greece; it is an autonomous state where no woman can set foot and which has its own... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1848855079
ISBN13:9781848855076
Release Date:December 2010
Publisher:Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Length:263 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.2" x 7.8"
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The greatest of his generation
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
A beautiful and tender book about one the most remote places in a country overcome by mass tourism. Byron's enthusiasm and wit leaps off the page. A contemporary of Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, John Betjeman and others of the so-called Brideshead Generation, Byron was, I think, the greatest talent of the lot because of his passinate conviction that is unobscured by the angst-ridden,boring Catholic fogeyism of the others. Byron's assertion that it is in the Byzantine empire where Hellenic culture reaches its high-point (not in 5th-century Athens)is, in my opinion, correct. I'll take the serene interior of an Orthodox church over the enigmatic Parthenon anytime.
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