Ethiopian Boat Arrives in the Mediterranean?! November 20, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval
Here’s a strange text to say the least. It appears in that remarkable tenth-century Arab work Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems by Abu Zayd, the kind of miscellany of marvels that only the Arabs could write: the non-fiction reflex of Sinbad. In the Sea of Rum [the Mediterranean] near the island of Iqritish […]
Finishing Horace and Whittier in WW2 November 3, 2011
Author: Beach Combing | in : ContemporaryToday’s post represents a definite minority interest: poems being started by someone and finished by someone else in the Second World War. (Sorry). Take the extraordinary exchange between the German general Heinrich Kreipe (obit 1976) and a young British major Patrick Leigh Fermor (obit 2011) [pictured centre and right] late one night in Crete in […]
