'fair'?

""I am in bed with influenza" —but what does that convey of the great experience; how the world has changed its shape; the tools of business grown remote; the sounds of festival become romantic like a merry-go-round heard across far fields; and friends have changed, some putting on a strange beauty, others deformed to the squatness of toads, while the whole landscape of life lies remote and fair, like the shore seen from a ship far out at sea, ....."

A line from Virginia Woolf's essay.

Does the word 'fair' here mean something similar to 'beautiful'? Or it means 'clear'? 'free of obstacles'? Since 'fair' as an adjective has many and all different meanings and I'm not a native English speaker, I don't quite get it. Could you help me, please~!