Constantinople

ISBN: 9781332007547 出版年：2016 页码：337 Edmondo de Amicis Forgotten Books

In order that the first page of my book may issue warm and living from my mind, it must commence on the last night of the voyage, in the middle of the Sea of Marmora, at the moment when the captain of the ship approached me, and putting his hand-s upon my shoulders, said, Signori, to-morrow at dawn we shall see the first minarets of Stamboul.