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Excerpt from Cruises of the Athena: In Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean, 1911 The Athena is but the culmination of a long evolution. A series of chartered steamers, all of them compromises between local conditions and our own ideals, have led the way to our present more serious undertaking. The yacht was built in a British shipyard for a gentleman of wealth. 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.