"Zea" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Life, Writings, Opinions, and Times of the R. H. George Gordon Noel Byron, which was published in 1825. The point of the story (i. 197-201), which need not be repeated at length, is that Byron, on leaving Constantinople and reaching the island of Zea (July, 1810), visited ["strolled about"] the islands of the Archipelago, in company with a Venetian gentleman who had turned buccaneer malgre lui, and whose history and adventures, amatory and piratical, prefigured and inspired the "gestes" of Conrad. The tale ...
— The Works Of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 7) • Lord Byron |
