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An Island After My Own Heart

An Island After My Own Heart

The Scottish island of Staffa, with its other-wordly basalt pillars similar to the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, unites two of my interests: German classical music composer Felix Mendelssohn composed an overture, inspired by the cathedral-like echoes of the island's Fingal's Cave; and the place is also mentioned in the adventure novels of French writer Jules Verne, a favorite author of mine.

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