LEGENDARY TOWERS - 10 stories of legendary towers E-Book

Anon E. Mouse

• Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

This book brings together 10 stories about legendary towers from around the world. Herein you will find stories and tales of towers like THE STORY TOLD BY THE KEEPER OF THE PHAROS (Egyptian), AEOLUS AND THE TOWER OF THE WINDS (Greece), THE MOON THAT SHONE ON THE PORCELAIN PAGODA (China), THE DRAGON OF GHENT (Belgium), THE LEPRECHAUN OF ARDMORE TOWER (Ireland) and more.Since ancient times towers have made a poetic appeal. Towers of many kinds, in all ages and in all countries, have met varying needs. There have been watchtowers, cathedral towers, clock towers, bell towers, towers to commemorate victories, towers to honour the living and towers to celebrate the dead. Around many of the towers, legends have clung - some of these legends are very well known. Towers will always stand midway between fact and poetry, the legends relating to them, more often than not, look in these two directions.The Bible tells of a remote time when men journeyed from the East and found a plain in the land of Shinar. . . ."And they said to one another, 'Come, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach heaven.'" Centuries after the building of the Tower of Babel, an Arab poet, El Deraoui, wrote of another tower, the Pharos, the great lighthouse off the northern coast of Egypt, "On its height a dome enshadowed me and thence I saw my friends the stars. I thought the sea below me was a cloud and that I had set up my tent in the midst of the heavens."A percentage of the net sale from this book will be donated to charities.

Leseprobe

LEGENDARY TOWERS

Retold by

BERTHA PALMER LANE

Illustrated by

Rosamond Lane Lord

Originally Published by

THE BEACON PRESS INC., Boston

[1932]

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Resurrected by

ABELA PUBLISHING, London

[2009]

Legendary Towers

Typographical arrangement of this edition

© Abela Publishing 2009

This book may not be reproduced in its current format in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs, wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system) except as permitted by law without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Abela Publishing,

London

United Kingdom

2009

ISBN-13: 978-1-907256-34-9

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Website

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Abela Publishing acknowledges the work that

BERTHA PALMER LANE

did in compiling Legendary Towers

in a time well before any electronic media was in use.

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A percentage of the net profit from the sale of this book

will be donated to schools, organisations or charities.

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PREFACE

THE Bible tells of a remote time when men journeyed from the East and found a plain in the land of Shinar. . . . "And they said to one another, 'Come, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach heaven.'" Centuries after the building of this Tower of Babel, an Arab poet, El Deraoui, wrote of another tower, the Pharos, the great lighthouse off the northern coast of Egypt, "On its height a dome enshadowed me and thence I saw my friends the stars. I thought the sea below me was a cloud and that I had set up my tent in the midst of the heavens."

Since ancient times, towers have made a poetic appeal. Towers of many kinds, in all ages and in all countries, have met varying needs. There have been watchtowers, lighthouse towers, cathedral towers, clock towers, bell towers, towers to commemorate victory, towers to guide the air-men, towers to receive radio messages, towers to honor the living, towers to celebrate the dead. Whether low towers or lofty towers, all have significance. Around many of the towers, legends have clung--some of these legends very well known. When the towers are not so well known, local legends in regard to the country or its people may be associated with them. Because towers will always stand midway between fact and poetry, the legends relating to them, more often than not, look in these two directions. Inspired architecture and poetry naturally go hand in hand.

This little book has brought together some of the more or less familiar legends, not with any aim of giving historical or geographical facts, but merely with a desire to record some of the characteristic tales that blend with a few of the noble towers of the earth.

CONTENTS

List Of Illustrations

The Story Told By The Keeper Of The

Pharos

Aeolus And The Tower Of The

Winds

The Moon That Shone On The

Porcelain Pagoda

The Brahman's Star

The Dragon Of Ghent

The Ox That Helped

The Raven Of The Giralda

The Goblin Of Giotto's Tower

The Leprechaun Of Ardmore Tower

The Tower That Sings

Bibliography And Notes

Maps

ILLUSTRATIONS

Frontispiece Kutb Minar, Delhi, India

The Pharos, Alexandria, Egypt

The Tower Of The Winds, Athens,

Greece

The Porcelain Pagoda, Chin-Ling,

China

Kutb Minar, Delhi, India

Carillon Tower, Ghent, Belgium

West Tower, Laon Cathedral, France

The Giralda, Seville, Spain

Giotto's Campanile, Florence, Italy

Ardmore Tower, Ardmore, Ireland

The Singing Tower, Lake Wales, Florida

Maps

LEGENDARY TOWERS

THE STORY TOLD

BY THE

KEEPER OF THE PHAROS

IN THE year 279 B.C., the Pharos, the great lighthouse, stood on the island of Pharos off the northern coast of Egypt. On a fair morning in that year, Sethos, keeper of the light, and Menna, his sister's boy, were looking down from the top of the tower at the city of Alexandria.