Cruise of the Vanadis [Hardcover]

Edith Wharton (Author), Jonas Dovydenas (Author)

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• Hardcover
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr; 1st edition (October 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762711981
• ISBN-13: 978-0762711987
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,830,938 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Cruise of the Vanadis (Hardcover)

In 1888, when she was 26 and well before her first works were published, the writer Edith Wharton, with her husband and cousin, valet and maid, chartered a steam-yacht, 167 feet long, with a crew of 16, to sail through the Mediterranean for nearly three months visiting its ancient ports and islands. She documented this voyage in a private journal which has recently been "discovered" and now has been published, illustrated by the photographer Jonas Dovydenas, who over several years visited many of sites which Whatorn had described more than 100 years earlier. The book stands by itself as an extremely well written travel document with strongly honest opinons and vivid descriptions by a highly cultured young heiress. For the Wharton admirer, it also shows the young artist on the verge of launching a brilliant writing career. Many of the idioms associated with her work are on view here for the first time. The photographs are beautiful reminders of that storied landscape. Areas covered include Algiers, Malta, Syracuse, Palermo, Corfu, Rhodes, Smyrna, Mount Athos, and Dalmatia.