The Romance of the Milky Way

by Lafcadio Hearn

Book Overview

Lafcadio Hearn, known to Nippon as Yakumo Koizumi, was born in Leucadia in the Ionian Islands, June 27, 1850. His father was an Irish surgeon in the British Army; his mother was a Greek. Both parents died while Hearn was still a child, and he was adopted by a great-aunt, and educated for the priesthood. To this training he owed his Latin scholarship and, doubtless, something of the subtlety of his intelligence. He soon found, however, that the prospect...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1518805787
• ISBN13: 9781518805783
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 58 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"