Sunshine and Storm in the East, or Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople : : New Introduction by Scott A. Leonard / / Lady Annie Brassey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Brassey, Lady Annie,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Cultures in Dialogue: First Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (544 p.)

Lady Annie Brassey (1839-1887) possess a keen eye for human interest and narrative detail that propelled her to international fame as a travel writer. This book presents a daily diary of two voyages to Constantinople aboard her family yacht in the mid 1870s. Here, the modern reader may glimpse the natural wonders, cultural distinctions, and political circumstances of such countries as Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Italy, Greece, and Turkey during that time period. Readers will also find an excellent example of the nineteenth-century European fascination with the "Orient."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CULTURES IN DIALOGUE -- INTRODUCTION -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PART I. CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE IONIAN ISLANDS. 1874. -- CHAPTER I. OUR START—RYDE, TANGIER, AND GIBRALTAR -- CHAPTER II. TETUAN, CEUTA, AND SICILY -- CHAPTER III. ATHENS, GREECE, AND THE ARCHIPELAGO -- CHAPTER IV. CONSTANTINOPLE . -- CHAPTER V. THE BOSPHORUS AND ITS PALACES -- CHAPTER VI. THE BLACK SEA, SKUTARI, BROUSSA, HAREMS -- CHAPTER VII. VISITS FROM TURKISH LADIES. FEAST OF BAIRAM. WALLS AND PALACES OF CONSTANTINOPLE -- CHAPTER VIII. THE SEA OF MARMORA, DARDANELLES, SMYRNA, EPHESUS, CHIOS, AND MILO -- CHAPTER IX. ZANTE, ITHACA, CEPHALONIA, CORFU, AND ALBANIA -- CHAPTER X. PAXOS, SPARTIVENTO, MESSINA, AND NAPLES -- CHAPTER XI. BASTIA, NICE, PARIS, AND HOME. -- PART II. CYPRUS. CONSTANTINOPLE. 1878. -- CHAPTER I. PORTSMOUTH, BREST, AND VIGO -- CHAPTER II. CADIZ, SEVILLE, AND GIBRALTAR -- CHAPTER III. ORAN AND CAGLIARI -- CHAPTER IV. NAPLES, POMPEII, P^STUM, CAPRI, MESSINA, AND CYPRUS. -- CHAPTER V. ISLAND OF CYPRUS.—PORT PAPHO, LIMASOL, LARNAKA -- CHAPTER VI. NIKOSIA, MATHIATI, AND FAMAGOUSTA -- CHAPTER VII. KYRENIA, MORFU, KIKKO, AND KARAVASTASIA -- CHAPTER VIII. RHODES, BESIKA BAY, THE DARDANELLES -- CHAPTER IX. ARTAKI BAY, ENGLISH FLEET, AND CONSTANTINOPLE -- CHAPTER X. ADRIANOPLE. -- CHAPTER XI. CONSTANTINOPLE AGAIN, GALLIPOLI, SYRA, AND MILO -- CHAPTER XII. MILO TO MALEA AND MALTA -- CHAPTER XIII. FROM MALTA TO MARSEILLES -- CHAPTER XIV. HOME ONCE MORE -- APPENDIX -- INDEX