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A winter departure from New York begins Robert Urie Jacob's account of a Mediterranean cruise aboard the Moltke. Written at the request of fellow travelers, the narrative records shared experiences, from choosing deck chairs and dining companions to concerts, card games and conversations at sea. Its route takes in places including Granada, Algiers, Athens, Jerusalem and Cairo, with nearly two hundred illustrations drawn from photographs contributed by travelers.
Visits ashore bring the account into homes as well as famous sites. In one passage, a family welcomes the visitors with a tour of their garden and house, fruit and Turkish coffee. Elsewhere, passengers choose excursions by train, carriage or horseback before the ship reaches Jaffa. These practical arrangements and social encounters give readers a view of organized travel, preserving the daily rhythms behind an ambitious sightseeing itinerary.
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- Author
- Robert Urie Jacob
- Reading time
- About 5 hours
- Pages
- 216
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Travel Memoir
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