Excerpt from Le Desert Les dangers du voyage, il est vrai, je n'y crois guere, et leur attrait chimerique n'est pas ce qui m'amene ici; mais, pour essayer de voir encore, sous l'ema11issement des hommes et des choses de ce siecle sans foi, la sainte Jerusalem, j'ai voulu y venir par les vieilles routes abandonnees et preparer mon esprit dans le long recueillement des solitudes. 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.