"We were travelling amid the most bizarre shapes that the mind of man can conceive." With a poet`s eye, George Seferis describes the haunting landscape and rock-hewn churches of Cappadocia as he rediscovers his ancestral land during a three-day excursion in 1950. Three Days in the Monasteries of Cappadocia, published here for the first time in English and complemented with Seferis` own photographs, is an evocative word portrait describing the artistic heritage of a remote region. Seferis dedicated the text to the Creek ethnomusicologist Melpo Logotheti-Merlier, director of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies, and to her husband, Octave Merlier, director of the Institut Francais in Athens, the most dedicated Philhellene of the 20th century.