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The Grand Tour letters of traveller and classical scholar John Bacon Sawrey Morritt (1771–1843), first published in 1914.

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John Bacon Sawrey Morritt (1771–1843), was a traveller, classical scholar and friend of Sir Walter Scott. This book, edited by G. E. Marindin (1841–1939) and first published in 1914, is a record of his Grand Tour of 1794–6, told through his letters home.

Contenuti

Preface; 1. Journey from Ostend to Dresden; 2. Vienna - the Polish insurrection; 3. Journey from Vienna to Constantinople, with some digressions about Vienna and Styria; 4. Constantinople; 5. Travels in Asia Minor and Samos; 6. The Troad and the site of the Homeric Troy: the Islands of Chios and Lesbos; 7. From Athos and Salonica through Thessaly and Boeotia: Athens; 8. Through the Morea, including the territory of the Mainotes in Laconia; 9. Aegean Islands: Crete; 10. Olympia and the Ionian Islands; 11. Naples; 12. From Rome, through Trieste and Vienna, to Cuxhaven; Index.

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