Here, near the b&b Amsterdam, the route crosses the eastern Cordilleras at an elevation of about 6,500 feet to the head waters of the Caqueta, or Yapura, a branch of the Amazon, and thence runs down that river 375 miles to the mouth of the Engarros, only 550 feet above tide-water. From the Caqueta river, …
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At Utica, on the northern coast, where Cato died, the well-to-do houses still show little ponds in their courts, semicircular basins lined with mosaic, picturing boats, or the many varieties of fish with which they were well acquainted, or patterns of peacocks and flowers. The columns and mosaics of Tunisia must have been innumerable in …
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A poor city now, with nothing much to keep it busy except its short season of pilgrimage around the Prophet’s birthday, Kairouan was built by the Muslim as a central point for caravans—as indeed its name implies. And there in the first strong impulse of their faith their mosque was given a court of columns …
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The independent Tunisian government is continuing these efforts with an eye to tourists and a little country is produced which is almost ideally balanced between the easy and the picturesque. The variety of its history is matched by that of Nature. Its southern border is the edge of Sahara where—with sheets of salt before them …
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No visitor to Istanbul can miss the Sulemaniye mosque – the chef-d’oeuvre of the architect, Sinan, whose life’s ambition was to outdo the splendour of the Aya Sofia. People come from their Barcelona travel or Paris travel. The majesty of the grey eminence dominates the city from its hilltop site, with its great dome, 53 …
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Dust in the Lion’s Paw, an autobiography covering Miss Stark’ s work in the Middle East during the war, will be published by John Murray in the autumn I HAVE been travelling for a few weeks in Tunisia —a small country delightfully varied—and have been trying to remember what first brought the reality of its …
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