# Vistas in Sicily

Author: Riggs, Arthur Stanley, 1879-1952

Genre: Category: Travel Writing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40381

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Vistas+in+Sicily+Riggs&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Sicily is the rarest flower of the great midland sea. Built up on the North in a series of beetling cliffs, the island slopes gently down through mountain chains and undulating plains to the golden Southern shore. An enormous triangle it is, spiny with lofty peaks--Ætna towers more than ten thousand feet in the air--spangled with flowering meads and dells where Nature loads the air with fragrance; pierced with infernal caverns, whence choking workers extract a large part of the world’s sulphur from the palaces of the former gods of the nether world; and fringèd about on every side with the lace-like foam of opal waves. It is rich in beauty and desolation, rich in song and story, rich in a...

## Chapters

- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vistas-in-sicily-40381/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vistas-in-sicily-40381/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vistas-in-sicily-40381/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vistas-in-sicily-40381/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vistas-in-sicily-40381/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vistas-in-sicily-40381/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vistas-in-sicily-40381/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vistas-in-sicily-40381/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vistas-in-sicily-40381/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vistas-in-sicily-40381/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vistas-in-sicily-40381/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vistas-in-sicily-40381/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vistas-in-sicily-40381/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vistas-in-sicily-40381/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vistas-in-sicily-40381/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vistas-in-sicily-40381/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vistas-in-sicily-40381/chapters/17/index.md)