A Victorian journalist takes the well-worn Mediterranean route and narrates it for fellow holiday-makers and armchair travellers. Naples, Pompeii, Athens, Constantinople and Smyrna lead on to Jaffa, Jerusalem, Alexandria and Cairo, before the return through Marseilles, Avignon, Lyons and Dijon, with the long histories of each city — Jerusalem’s sieges and conquerors above all — recounted along the way.
Gathered from newspaper articles, it captures how an educated Englishman saw the ancient world’s cities on the eve of mass tourism. Download the free EPUB.