Edward Lear in Albania: Journals of a Landscape Painter in the Balkans

by EdwardLear (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $59.29

  Edward Lear's travels through Albania and Macedonia in 1848 came about when an outbreak of cholera closed off all other routes out of Salonica setting him off on this unusual adventure. This book catalogues his observations of this land. It provides insights into the environment, culture and politics of the period.