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by Robert Curzon

Author:

Robert Curzon

ISBN13:

978-1406868647

ISBN:

1406868647

Language:

English

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Echo Library (October 18, 2010)

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Reference

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Writing Research & Publishing Guides

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Robert Curzon was a wealthy, VERY determined bibliophile who traveled through the Middle East and M.

Robert Curzon was a wealthy, VERY determined bibliophile who traveled through the Middle East and Mt. Athos to see the library collections in the great monasteries. And his self-presentation to them as "first cousin, once-removed, of the kings of Europe" got him into these places.

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There are in fact many anecdotes in the book, mostly second hand (as the above), that illustrate, for example, the honesty of Turkish porters or the guile of Armenian dealers. I suspect many a national stereotype has its origins in the tales told to Victorian travellers. But enough apologies already!

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Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche (1810-1873), was an English traveller, diplomat and author. He was responsible for acquiring several important Biblical manuscripts from Eastern Orthodox monasteries and this book, first published in 1849, describes his travels to these monasteries.

Daron

Robert Curzon was a wealthy, VERY determined bibliophile
who traveled through the Middle East and Mt. Athos to see
the library collections in the great monasteries. His adventures
and comments about each of these places, and some of the
monks who live there, are highly interesting. And his self-presentation
to them as "first cousin, once-removed, of the kings of Europe"
got him into these places.

Aside from the humor and persistence,he
was a very knowledgeable man. While he was able to acquire a few
volumes for himself, it is most instructive to know the breadth of
knowledge those monasteries contained. In many ways, one would
wish, with the monks mostly ignorant of their value and not keeping them
up, that he could have gotten all of them for posterity someplace like the
British Museum. A fast-paced "read."

Bine

I actually began reading an electronic version of this book and decided to stop flipping virtual pages and buy a physical copy. I am glad I did, for the illustrations and the perspective Curzon gave of the people and their land 100+ years ago.
I could not put this book down - it was fascinating, and "back then", authors would drop a line in French or Latin and assume the reader understood it! OK, the Greek Cyrillic alphabet is something I have yet to master, but the stories are grand.

Ceroelyu

Curzon was an English "milord" of ample means who made a trip to the eastern Mediterranean in the 1830s with the purpose of visiting the old monasteries and, in particular, examining their libraries for any ancient manuscripts worth acquiring. He did not discover any lost classics, but he did manage to purchase a number of things that caught his eye and is therefore probably responsible for saving some beautiful medieval books; it is clear from his account that most of the monks by this time had given up all interest in reading and their libraries were crumbling to dust.

Even if you have no interest in old books or monasteries, this is a fine travelogue full of color and interesting characters, to say nothing of literally cliff-hanging adventures. Curzon himself seems to have been a likable sort of fellow who got on with everyone from powerful Egyptian pashas to Albanian bandits, and he writes with simplicity and good humor. I count myself lucky to have stumbled upon this jewel of another age, just as Curzon himself felt when he found some long-neglected codex on a mountaintop in Greece.

I'd be cautious about ordering a print edition of this work, because so many modern print-on-demand photographic reprints are of very poor quality. But I can heartily recommend it as a Kindle read. The text is pretty clean (I didn't spot more than a dozen typographical errors), and the illustrations are included.

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