Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope 3 Volume Paperback Set - Charles Lewis Meryon

Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope 3 Volume Paperback Set

Forming the Completion of her Memoirs
Media-Kombination
1252 Seiten
2012
Cambridge University Press
978-1-108-04231-4 (ISBN)
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Adventurous and unconventional, Lady Hester Stanhope (1776–1839) left England to travel to the east in the early nineteenth century. This three-volume work, first published in 1846, was written by her physician Charles Meryon (1783–1877), who travelled with her for seven years before returning to England to complete his medical studies.
The adventurous and unconventional Lady Hester Stanhope (1776–1839) set off to travel to the East in the early nineteenth century. She had been hostess to her uncle, British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, and after his death she received a government pension and decided to leave England. Her personal physician Charles Meryon (1783–1877) wrote this three-volume memoir of their travels, first published in 1846. She had a reputation as an eccentric, but thought of herself as the 'Queen of the desert' and indeed achieved considerable influence in the places she travelled to. Eventually she settled in the Lebanon, where she lived out the remainder of her life. She dressed in men's clothes to allow her to go to places not considered safe for a lady, and her adventures included shipwreck, plague and treasure-hunting. She also gives descriptions of the Bedouin and other tribes of the Middle East.

Volume 1: Preface; 1. Departure from England; 2. Zante; 3. Athens; 4. Procession of the Sultan to the mosque; 5. The author goes to Brusa; 6. Departure from Constantinople; 7. The author sets out for Smyrna; 8. Reception at Alexandria; 9. The author returns to Alexandria, in company with Mr. Wynne and Mr. McNamara; 10. Loss of journals; 11. Departure from Jerusalem; 12. Increased illness of Yusef; 13. Preparations for leaving Acre; 14. Departure from Acre; 15. Governor's visit; 16. Dayr el Kamar; Additional note. Volume 2: 1. Damascus; 2. Lady Hester's intended journey to Palmyra; 3. Precautions against riots; 4. The author enters the desert; 5. Reflections on the ruins of Palmyra; 6. Hamah; 7. Departure from Palmyra; 8. Departure from Hamah; 9. Residence at Latakia; 10. Mode of life of Lady Hester Stanhope; 11. Plague at Abra. Volume 3: 1. Preparations for a journey to Bâlbec; 2. Residence at Bâlbec; 3. Residence at Tripoli; 4. Journey from Tripoli to Abra; 5. Probability of the existence of hidden treasures in the East; 6. Journey of Lady Hester from Mar Elias to Ascalon; 7. History of Ascalon; 8. Visit of the author to the Maronite convent in the village of Joon; 9. M. Surûr, English agent at Damietta; 10. Disappearance of Colonel Boutin, a French traveller; 11. Quarrel between a Drûze and a Metouály; 12. Journey of the Princess of Wales to Jerusalem; 13. Departure of the author for Europe; 14. Departure from Cyprus, and voyage to Marseilles; Additional note.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 22.3.2012
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
Zusatzinfo 3 Plates, black and white; 20 Halftones, unspecified
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 139 x 216 mm
Gewicht 1700 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Reisen Reiseberichte Naher Osten
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 1-108-04231-7 / 1108042317
ISBN-13 978-1-108-04231-4 / 9781108042314
Zustand Neuware
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