A wonderful travel book, where the fascinating historical review of the distant past is followed by vivid recordings and descriptions of the present. History, monuments, art, society, economy, industry, people, cities, universities, personalities, standards, youth – they are all there, shining with bright and dark colors before the reader's eyes. With two additional texts by the author, about England and Cyprus and about "the blue bird of freedom" which, when it peeks out from the borders of England, transforms into a blood-soaked imperialist vulture.