John Brooke

Voyage in Italy: The Travels of the Sheena-Rosa John Brooke

The Travels of the SheenaRosa. Why do we travel? For the most part, we travel to arrive, but with the travels of the Sheena-Rosa,there is a fusion between travelling and arriving. Whether a few miles off-shore or harboured in a sheltered port, the experience is a continuum. From the sea, one observes the land, its contours and its mountains a view that has little changed from the landscape our ancestors would have seen. Then as we draw nearer, the features on this landscape appear, and the influence of man becomes more and more apparent. We arrive on port and step onto the old stones, for the port is always the most ancient part of