Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope
Forming the Completion of her Memoirs
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- Author: Charles Lewis Meryon
- Date Published: March 2012
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The adventurous and unconventional Lady Hester Stanhope (1776–1839) set off to travel to the East in the early nineteenth century. She had been hostess to her uncle, British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, and after his death she received a government pension and decided to leave England. Her personal physician Charles Meryon (1783–1877) wrote this three-volume memoir of their travels, first published in 1846. She had a reputation as an eccentric, but thought of herself as the 'Queen of the desert' and indeed achieved considerable influence in the places she travelled to. Eventually she settled in the Lebanon, where she lived out the remainder of her life. She dressed in men's clothes to allow her to go to places not considered safe for a lady, and her adventures included shipwreck, plague and treasure-hunting. She also gives descriptions of the Bedouin and other tribes of the Middle East.
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- Date Published: March 2012
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108042314
- length: 1252 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 139 x 75 mm
- weight: 1.7kg
- contains: 23 b/w illus.
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Preface
1. Departure from England
2. Zante
3. Athens
4. Procession of the Sultan to the mosque
5. The author goes to Brusa
6. Departure from Constantinople
7. The author sets out for Smyrna
8. Reception at Alexandria
9. The author returns to Alexandria, in company with Mr. Wynne and Mr. McNamara
10. Loss of journals
11. Departure from Jerusalem
12. Increased illness of Yusef
13. Preparations for leaving Acre
14. Departure from Acre
15. Governor's visit
16. Dayr el Kamar
Additional note. Volume 2:
1. Damascus
2. Lady Hester's intended journey to Palmyra
3. Precautions against riots
4. The author enters the desert
5. Reflections on the ruins of Palmyra
6. Hamah
7. Departure from Palmyra
8. Departure from Hamah
9. Residence at Latakia
10. Mode of life of Lady Hester Stanhope
11. Plague at Abra. Volume 3:
1. Preparations for a journey to Bâlbec
2. Residence at Bâlbec
3. Residence at Tripoli
4. Journey from Tripoli to Abra
5. Probability of the existence of hidden treasures in the East
6. Journey of Lady Hester from Mar Elias to Ascalon
7. History of Ascalon
8. Visit of the author to the Maronite convent in the village of Joon
9. M. Surûr, English agent at Damietta
10. Disappearance of Colonel Boutin, a French traveller
11. Quarrel between a Drûze and a Metouály
12. Journey of the Princess of Wales to Jerusalem
13. Departure of the author for Europe
14. Departure from Cyprus, and voyage to Marseilles
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