Excerpt from Mediterranean Moods, Footnotes of Travel in the Islands of Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza, and Sardinia But when he has sat long at the feast of foreign life; when he has dulled the edge of novelty, admired all that is to be admired, worn out his guide-books; when, in a word, he feels the pre monitions of ennui; then, if he is honest with himself, the traveller will confess that travel is a wilderness punctuated by oases. These oases are the precious moments which he seeks. Unluckily there is no certain route which conducts to them. There is no map on which they are charted. They are not starred in Baedeker. The tourist agencies know nothing of them. The directions of friends are invariably misleading. Their oasis will be your mirage. No personal intuition will ever guide you to them. If you succeed in finding your way back to one which has once refreshed you, you will only experience the disillusion and bitter amazement with which you renew the acquaint ance of a first love. 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.