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Cyclades, or Life Among the Insular Greeks
First Published in 1885, a revised edition with additional material
Av J Theodore Bent, Gerald Brisch
Häftad, 2002
238 kr
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James Theodore Bent (1852-1897) was an Oxford-educated archaeologist, historian and explorer who dedicated his short life to researches in the Levant and Africa. In the winters of 1882-84 he and his wife, Mabel Hall-Dare, made extended tours of the Cycladic islands and in 1885 Bent published what …
Athens and Attica: Journal of a Residence there
Av Christopher Wordsworth, Gerald Brisch
Häftad, 2004
243 kr
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Christopher Wordsworth (1807-85), the “Great Christopher” of Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge, was a nephew of William the poet, and brother to the student who launched the University Boat Race. In 1832 he took a gap-year, after his brilliant studies in ancient Greek and Latin classics, to …
Rhodes in Ancient Times
First Published in 1885, a revised edition with additional material
Häftad, 2005
236 kr
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“Not the shadow of a smile disturbs the dry exposition of the scholarly Englishman [Cecil Torr] who has given us the best historical monograph on the island… Read him and you will see why...” (Lawrence Durrell, "Reflections on a Marine Venus"). Cecil Torr’s two 19th-century studies of Rhodes, in …
Travel Chronicles of Mrs J. Theodore Bent. Volume I: Greece and the Levantine Littoral
Mabel Bent's diaries of 1883-1898, from the archive of the Joint Library of the Hellenic and Roman Societies, London
Häftad, 2006
446 kr
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“Then we went to the other bath. Here I found I was being again taken to the men’s place, so I said, ‘I’m not going in here’. But a great outcry was raised and loud exclamations of invitation and constant assurances that there was nobody naked, so when T said fiercely, ‘Come in and don’t make a …
Travel Chronicles of Mrs J. Theodore Bent. Volume III: Southern Arabia and Persia
Mabel Bent's diaries of 1883-1898, from the archive of the Joint Library of the Hellenic and Roman Societies, London
Häftad, 2010
472 kr
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“If my fellow-traveller had lived, he intended to have put together in book form such information as we had gathered about Southern Arabia. Now, as he died four days after our return from our last journey there, I have had to undertake the task myself. It has been very sad to me, but I have been …
Travel Chronicles of Mrs. J. Theodore Bent. Volume II: The African Journeys
Mabel Bent's diaries of 1883-1898, from the archive of the Joint Library of the Hellenic and Roman Societies, London
Häftad, 2012
440 kr
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“At last we reached a circular enclosure among the grass and scanty trees. We rushed in and it was like getting into a tropical greenhouse with the roof off. There were tall trees and long creepers making monkey ropes, large flowers hanging, great cactus trees, aloes and all sorts of beautiful …
Dodecanese: Further Travels Among the Insular Greeks
Selected Writings of J. Theodore & Mabel V.A. Bent, 1885-1888
Häftad, 2015
243 kr
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A sequel to The Cyclades, a compilation of late-19th-century travel writings (with an archaeological/ethnographical bias) centred on the Greek Dodecanese islands (including Rhodes, Nissiros, Tilos, Karpathos, Patmos, and Astypalea). The authors are the British explorer J. Theodore Bent (1852-1897), …
