A traveller's alphabet
Subtitle: partial memoirs
By: Steven Runciman.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Runciman, Steven, Sir, 1903-; Voyages and travels
Description: This book is not a serious contribution to travel-literature. [The author has] made no attempt to interpret the way of life in the lands [he has] visited or even to describe the beauties of nature and the works of art to be found there.  [His] intention is only to record [his] own experiences in a number of places to which curiosity or circumstances ... have taken [him] ... In order to give some form to these disconnected ancecdotes [the author has] arranged them alphabetically, place by place. -Prologue
Table of contents: title: Athos; title: Bulgaria; title: Cambodia and Cochin-China; title: Damascus; title: Egypt; title: France; title: The Gulf; title: Hamburg, Hildesheim, Hesse; title: Istanbul; title: Japan; title: Kodiak Island; title: Los Angeles; title: Morea, Monemvasia and Mistra; title: Nevada; title: Orta; title: Philippines; title: Queensland; title: Roumania; title: Sarawak; title: Thailand; title: Ur of the Chaldees; title: Vancouver Island; title: West Indies; title: Xanadu; title: Yucatan; title: Zion.