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192 - Lord Warkworth: Notes of a Diary in Asiatic Turkey. London 1898
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Lord Warkworth: Notes of a Diary in Asiatic Turkey. London 1898 First edition, large Quarto, publishers green hard covers, head of spine slightly trimmed,text clean and bright,complete 265p., 32 plates including one map, overall in very good plus condition, a nice copy. A high-level aristocratic journal of travels through Asia Minor and Pontos.Lord Warkworth was a brilliant young British MP and the future Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. His journey was not merely for leisure; it was a high-stakes geopolitical survey. Traveling at a time of extreme tension following the Armenian massacres of the mid-1890s, Warkworth was one of the few British officials to provide a firsthand, detailed account of the Eastern Provinces.His diary covers some of the most remote and dangerous terrain of Anatolia.A very valuable source for the Hellenism of Pontos, as he toured extensively from Samsoun to Trebizond and beyond following unbeaten tracks.
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Travels and discoveries in Greece and the Levant The Library of a Greek gentleman, Part DAuction house
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