Cyprus as I saw it in 1879. By Sir Samuel White Baker.

Macmillan and Co.

Baker, Sir Samuel White

First edition. The EJF collection also includes two copies of the German translation of this work, by Richard Oberländer (see entry numbers 1770 and 2423). References: Blackmer 67.

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The record of a voyage which lasted from January to August 1879, i.e. shortly after the British occupation of Cyprus began (1878). The author, who was a British explorer and writer, travelled in carriages especially manufactured for him and sent over from England. The frontispiece shows the travelling party, which also included his second wife, Florence Baker, nee von Sass; it is most probably based on a photograph taken on the spot by an itinerant photographer that the travellers met outside Larnaca. The writing of the book was completed in the Monastery of Trooditissa in Cyprus. Indeed, the Greek Orthodox Church, with its tenets and rituals, and Greek Orthodox monasticism, are main preoccupations of the author.

Κύπρος--1879, Λάρνακα--1879, Λευκωσία--1879, Κυρήνεια--1879, Πάφος--1879, Λεμεσός--1879, Αμμόχωστος--1879