Author : David Sutherland
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 33,29 MB
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780267873111
Book Description
Excerpt from A Tour Up the Straits, From Gibraltar to Constantinople: With the Leading Events in the Present War Between the Austrians, Russians, and Turks, to the Commencement of the Year 1789 The compliments paid to this little work, firfl gave him the idea of ap pearing in print. Aware, however, that the ground over which he had travelled, had often been treated upon by much more able pens, he for fame time fupprefied his hopes of becoming a candidate for fame in the literary world: but after the general encourage ment he met, he would have been guilty of injufiice to himfelf, and of want of confidence in his friends, had be any longer hefitated to appear the Public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.