At the Gates of the East

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Excerpt from At the Gates of the East: A Book of Travel Among Historic Wonderlands The present volume has little pretensions as a guidebook - though it will be found useful in that way - still less as a magazine of dry informational lumber - though incidental matters of fact will, it is thought, merit the compliment of acceptance for their accuracy. It is merely a collection of impressions not derived from reading but gathered at first hand, set forth with sincerity, and not manufactured for the market. It may answer some useful purpose if it illustrates the unregarded truism that mere movement is not travel, that sight-seeing is one thing and the appreciative sense of what is seen another, for something more is wanted in a wanderer than a pair of eyes and an unclouded retina. Travel is an Art, and as such is teachable, supposing the temperamental aptitudes to be propitious. Without a large capacity of response in the emotions, historic wonderlands are likely to produce no deeper moods than the dumb show of an itinerant diorama. For a traveller, in very truth, is born - not made. But the book, should it meet with any favour, may do good in a practical way, if it weans the wearied, the plethorous and the valetudinarian from the Cult of the Spas. 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.