World enough, and time : the travel chronicles of Mrs. J. Theodore Bent
- Author
- Bent, Theodore, Mrs., -1929
- Additional Titles
- Travel chronicles of Mrs. J. Theodore Bent and Vol. 3 also has title: Deserts of vast eternity
- Published
- Oxford, UK : Archaeopress, [2006-]
- Copyright Date
- ©2006-
- Physical Description
- volumes : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Brisch, Gerald and Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (London, England)
- Series
- Contents
- Vol. 1. Greece and the Levantine littoral -- v. 3. Southern Arabia and Persia
- Summary
- If my fellow-traveller had lived, he intended to have put together in book form such information as we had gathered about Southern Arabia. Now, as he died four days after our return from our last journey there, I hove had to undertake the task myself. It has been very sad tome, but I have been helped by knowing that, however imperfect this book may be, what is written here will surely be a help to those who, by following in our footsteps, will be able to get beyond them, and to whom I so heartily wish success and a Happy Home-coming, the best wish a traveller may have. --
Testimony to the high regard in which her book is held is that since publication it has rarely been out of print, and in that same Preface Mabel describes how she relied for her source material not only on Theodore's notebooks but also on her personal diaries, or 'Chronicles that I always wrote during our journeys'. After more than a hundred years, Mabel Bent's Chronicles (held in the archive of the Joint Library of the Hellenic and Roman Societies, London) now follow her Southern Arabia into publication for the first time, along with personal documents and editorial notes that contextualise the significance of these extensive explorations û by two of the great British travellers of the 19th century û within the history of Victorian travel writing. --Book Jacket. - Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 1905739028 (v.1)
9781905739028 (v.1)
1905739052 (v.1, hbk)
9781905739059 (v.1, hbk)
9781905739134 (v. 3) - Related Titles
- Greece and the Levantine littoral
- Note
- "Mabel Bent's diaries of 1883-1898, from the archive of the Joint Library of the Hellenic and Roman Societies, London. Published for the first time, with additional material by Gerald Brisch."
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of Acquisition
- UP-PAT copy of v. 3: Purchased with funds from the Floyd B. and Naomi A. Fischer Libraries Endowment; 2010.
- Endowment Note
- Floyd B. and Naomi A. Fischer Libraries Endowment
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