To Know One’s Country as a Foreign Land
I have always found informal travel accounts fascinating. By informal, I mean accounts found in personal diaries or letters. Occasionally, they are published posthumously by the writer’s relatives...
View ArticleOrientations in Sunlight: With Durrell in Rhodes
“In Rhodes the days drop as softly as fruit from trees. Some belong to the dazzling ages of Cleobolus and the tyrants, some to the gloomy Tiberius, some to the crusaders. They follow each other in...
View Article“The Four in Crete”: A Travel Book Leads to an Archival Adventure
Posted by Christopher Richter Christopher Richter, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Hollins University, with research interests in visual and textual narratives, here contributes to From...
View ArticleThe Cretan Diaries of Colonel Émile-Honoré Destelle (1897-1898)
Following the Cretan revolt of 1896, six Great Powers (Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, and England) sent a squadron of warships to Crete in early 1897 to maintain the fragile peace...
View ArticleDO I REALLY WANT TO BE AN ARCHAEOLOGIST?
The first time I heard her name was in 1986 at Tsoungiza, Nemea. I had just been awarded a Fulbright fellowship to go to Bryn Mawr College for graduate school. James (Jim) C. Wright, one of the...
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