Phoenix: The Station: Athos: Treasures and Men

By Robert Byron

Book Overview

The Station follows three high-spirited young men visiting the monasteries on Mount Athos in 1927. They examine treasures and sketch the courtyards and those who live in them. They swim ecstatically... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1842122088
• ISBN13: 9781842122082
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Phoenix
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

The greatest of his generation

A beautiful and tender book about one the most remote places in a country overcome by mass tourism. Byron's enthusiasm and wit leaps off the page. A contemporary of Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, John Betjeman and others of the so-called Brideshead Generation, Byron was, I think, the greatest talent of the lot because of his passinate conviction that is unobscured by the angst-ridden,boring Catholic fogeyism of the others. Byron's assertion that it is in the Byzantine empire where Hellenic culture reaches its high-point (not in 5th-century Athens)is, in my opinion, correct. I'll take the serene interior of an Orthodox church over the enigmatic Parthenon anytime.