Travels in Albania and Other Provinces of Turkey in 1809 and 1810

An updated and corrected two-volume version of Hobhouse's 1814 account of his travels with Lord Byron, published in 1855.

John Cam Hobhouse (Author)

9781108076104, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 21 August 2014

550 pages, 2 colour illus. 2 maps
21.6 x 14 x 3.1 cm, 0.69 kg

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 2 takes the travellers from Smyrna in Asia Minor and up the coast to Istanbul, where they had an audience with Sultan Mahmud II. 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'.

33. Patriotism of the Greeks
34. Departure from Athens
35. The Musselim's summer residence
36. A journey to Ephesus
37. Departure from Smyrna
38. Frigate anchors off Sigeum
39. Barrows
40. The supposed port of Agamemnon's fleet
41. The district of the Troad
42. The frigate leaves Cape Janissary
43. Difficulty of obtaining information concerning the Turks
44. The valley of sweet waters
45. Galata
46. Ters-Hane
47. Excursion to Constantinople
48. The Atmeidan
49. The Dgiamissi Selatyn, or royal moscks
50. The ambassador's audience of the Caimacam
Appendix.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]