Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 343 pages)
ISBN:
9781107706613
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection
Content:
Edward Blaquiere (1779–1832), an Irishman of Huguenot descent, joined the Royal Navy in 1794 and served, chiefly in the Mediterranean, throughout the Napoleonic wars. In 1820, influenced by Jeremy Bentham, he went on his behalf to Spain to observe the revolution there. On the fall of the liberal regime in Spain in 1823, Blaquiere and his friend John Bowring formed the London Greek Committee to raise money for the Greek war of independence and to lobby the British government for support. (It was under the auspices of the Committee, and recruited by Blaquiere, that Lord Byron made his famous, and fatal, journey to Greece.) After his second visit to Greece, in 1825 Blaquiere published this account of his own travels and of the last days of Lord Byron. His 1824 book on the progress of the Greek revolution is also reissued in this series
Content:
Introduction -- Part I: Introduction -- Personal narrative of the author's arrival -- Part II: The last days of Lord Byron -- Funeral oration -- Account of the author's visit to Anatolico -- Extracts from correspondence
Note:
Originally published in 1825
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108075978
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe! ISBN 9781108075978
Language:
English
Keywords:
Reise
;
Griechenland
;
Reisebericht
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781107706613
Author information:
Blaquière, Edward 1779-1832
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