From Cyprus to Zanzibar by the Egyptian Delta
The Adventures of a Journalist in the Isle of Love, the Home of Miracles, and the Land of Cloves

Edward Vizetelly's 1901 memoir of his time as a journalist in the Middle East and Africa between 1878 and 1889.

Edward Henry Vizetelly (Author)

9781108046015, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 April 2012

568 pages, 32 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 3.2 cm, 0.71 kg

Edward Vizetelly (1847–1903) was the son of the publisher Henry Vizetelly and a perceptive war correspondent. He began his career for the Daily News and New York Times, covering the Franco-Prussian War, where he narrowly escaped being shot as a spy. This work, published in 1901, recounts the next period of his career, with vivid descriptions of people and places. In 1878, Cyprus was ceded to Britain by Turkey, and Vizetelly, then in Athens, was sent to report on the Island, where he remained for four years. In 1882, he moved to Egypt, where Arab unrest led to the massacre of Europeans in Cairo and the bombardment of Alexandria by British warships. On his return to Europe in 1889, he was commissioned by the owner of the New York Herald to find H. M. Stanley, using Zanzibar as his base. He concludes with a brief summary of subsequent events in Africa.

Publisher's note
1. Cyprus at the Occupation
2. A civil servant on sixpence a day
3. The Cyprus Times
4. The home of miracles
5. The Khedive Tewfik
6. Cairo before the massacre
7. The massacre and exodus
8. The bombardment
9. The march to the sea
10. The landing at Port Said
11. Ismaelia
12. A ride to Cairo
13. Cairo after the occupation
14. The Egyptian Gazette
15. The Arabists and the indemnities
16. Muddle and victory in the Soudan
17. The cholera morbus
18. The Times of Egypt
19. A tale of libel
20. Tit for tat
21. Jim Bennett
22. The land of cloves
23. At Mombassa
24. A dash to meet Stanley
25. Advance Britannia!
Index.

Subject Areas: African history [HBJH]