MACAULAY, ROSE
Fabled Shore : From the Pyrenees to Portugal
London, Hamish Hamilton. 1956, 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Book, "Fabled Shore is a true description of this long strange coast and its haunted hinterland, to which Homer sent Odysseus voyaging, where, in the regions about Tartessos, dark Tartarus was placed, and the Elysian plains, the abode of the blest, 'at the ends of the earth, where life is easiest. No snow is there, nor great storm, nor ever any rain; but always Oceanus sends forth the breezes of clear-blowing Zephyrus"That, as Strabo observed, is obviously Iberia."220p. illus .index maps on endpapers. Fine/Very Good, Slight Chips & Tears.

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