Bernard Granville Baker: 2 books
The Walls of Constantinople
Illustrated
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
ROMANCE and the HISTORY of walled cities are inseparable. Who has not felt this to be so at the sight of hoary ruins lichen-clad and ivy-mantled, that proudly rear their battered crests despite the ravages of time and man’s destructive instincts. It is within walled cities that the life of civilized...
by Bernard Granville Baker
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
INTRODUCTION
TOWARDS the end of a dismal summer, when everybody who is anybody in the United Kingdom was departing for their annual holidays, dark clouds began to gather on the political horizon overshadowing that European storm-centre, the Balkan Peninsula. Angry clouds had gathered over...