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Brassey, Lady Annie. Sunshine and Storm in the East, or Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople
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| Author: | Lady Annie Brassey |
| Title: | Sunshine and Storm in the East, or Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople |
| Subtitle: | New Introduction by Scott A. Leonard |
| Series: | Cultures in Dialogue 7 |
| Publisher: | Gorgias Press LLC |
| Publication Date: | 10/8/2004 3:02:15 PM 1880 |
| Availability: | In Print |
| ISBN: | 1-59333-202-5 |
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| Format: | Hardback 6 x 9, 1 volume(s), 200 pages, illustrations |
In Sunshine and Storm in the East, or Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople, Lady Annie Brassey(1839-1887) exemplifies the keen eye for human interest and narrative detail that propelled her to international fame as a travel writer. These pages present a daily diary of two voyages to Constantinople aboard the family yacht, Sunbeam. 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 the mid-1870s. Whether Lady Brassey is describing a boar hunt in rural Algeria, speculating on the causes of fever, or relating her tea-time conversation with the wives of Sultan Abdnlaziz in their Turkish harems, she is always a cheerful, informed, and compelling guide. One also finds in this book an excellent example of the nineteenth-century European fascination with the "Orient" as a place of exotic customs, redolent sensuality, and commonplace cruelty - a place, that is, existing partly as a complex metaphor for imperial Europe's attitude toward "the Other" and partly as a socio-political reality. Scott A. Leonard is Professor of English at Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio, USA Cultures in Dialogue returns to print sources by women writers from the East and West. Series One considers the exchanges between Ottoman, British, and American women from the 1880s to the 1940s. Their varied responses to dilemmas such as nationalism, female emancipation, race relations and modernization in the context of the stereotypes characteristic of Western harem literature reframe the historical tensions between Eastern and Western cultures, offering a nuanced understanding of their current manifestations. Series Editors: Teresa Heffernan is Associate Professor of English at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Reina Lewis is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of East London, UK. "A well-written exposition of the personal and political background to the work, (the introduction) highlights major themes and strategies without over-summarizing. For students, it cogently introduces Orientalism."--Dr. Marilyn Booth, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Introduction to the Series
- Introduction to the Reprint
- Preface
- Our Start - Ryde, Tangier, and Gibraltar
- Tetuan, Ceuta, and Sicily
- Athens, Greece, and the Archipelago
- Constantinople
- The Boshporus and its Palaces
- The Black Sea, Skutari, Broussa, Harems
- Visits from Turkish Ladies. Feast of Bairam. Walls and Palaces of Constantinople
- The Sea of Marmora, Dardanelles, Smyrna, Ephesus, Chios, and Milo
- Zante, Ithaca, Cephalonia, Corfu, and Albania
- Paxos, Spartivento, Messina, and Naples
- Bastia, Nice, Paris, and Home
- Portsmouth, Brest, and Vigo
- Cadiz, Seville, and Gibraltar
- Naples, Pompeii, Pæstum, Capri, Messina, and Cyprus
- Island of Cyprus. Port Paho, Limasol, Larnaka
- Nikosia, Mathiati, and Famagousta
- Kyrenia, Morfu, Kikko, and Karavastasia
- Rhodes, Basika Bay, The Dardanelles
- Artaki Bay, English Fleet, and Constantinople
- Adrianople
- Constantinople Again, Gallipoli, Syra, and Milo
- Milo to Malea and Malta
- From Malta to Marseilles
- Home Once More
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| | Brassey, Lady Annie. Sunshine and Storm in the East, or Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople | | ISBN: | 1-59333-202-5 | | Weight: | 1 LBS. | | Price: | $85.00 | | To get the 20% Gorgias BiblioPerks™ discount, simply login. | |
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