"Monography" of Vourla

"What a dreamy day this was. I was on Skala in front of our house, on the moor. Dark was the weather and I could not feel any human presence around me. I was watching the steamer that was turning back to go back to the island of Saint-Yannis. It would be one or two in the afternoon, the usual time as always. I had an undefined uneasiness, like when you're looking for something you're missing. I remember well the colors, the overcast sky, the foam made by the steamer hitting the wave. You could hang the sun that lit it up and put it on your bed." In the above way, the Nobel laureate poet, Giorgos Seferis, describes the port and the city of Vourla in Asia Minor. A city with a glorious past and history, on which the new edition of IDISME comes to shed light with the publication of a rare primary archival material from 1905. It is the personal record of public school teacher Klimis Iatridis, a "tomography" of Vourla, which at the beginning of the 20th century was one of the largest centers of Hellenism in the Far East. With the essential and penetrating look of Iatridis, but also with unpublished photographic material, the Vourla Monograph is a great read both for historians and scholars of the period, as well as for all those who seek in the footsteps of the past the complete daily life of the early Vourlians of the 20th century.