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

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 n...

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