Travels in Albania and Other Provinces of Turkey in 1809 and 1810: Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - European History) - Softcover

Hobhouse, John Cam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108076092 ISBN 13: 9781108076098

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

John Cam Hobhouse, later Lord Broughton (1786–1869), became a friend of Byron when they were at Cambridge, and was frequently his travelling companion. He first published an account of their journey to Albania and Greece in 1814, and reissued this updated and corrected two-volume version in 1855, after his retirement from public life. (His memoirs are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.) In September 1809 Byron and Hobhouse were in Malta, and took the opportunity of a passing ship to go to Preveza in Epirus, making their way to the court of Ali Pasha, the 'tyrant of Ioannina'. Volume 1 continues the account of travels through Greece to Athens, and ends with a review of the modern Greek language and its emerging literature. During their journey, Byron was writing Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: on its publication in 1812, as he said, 'I awoke one morning and found myself famous'.

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Book Description:

John Cam Hobhouse, later Lord Broughton (1786–1869), became a friend of Lord Byron when they were at Cambridge, and was frequently his travelling companion. He first published an account of their journey to Albania and Greece in 1814, and reissued this updated and corrected two-volume version in 1855.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1108076092
• ISBN 13: 9781108076098
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 582