ON THE TRACK OF ULYSSES, together with An Excursion in Quest of the So-Called Venus de Melos: Two Studies in Archeology, Made During a Cruise among the Greek Islands including a chapter titled The Odyssey, Its Epoch and Geography

Stillman, William James

Edité par Houghton, Mifflin, & Co, Boston, 1888

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106 pages; Unmarked and tight in attractive original brown decorative cloth binding with lettering and stamping in gilt and black with gilt image of an ancient sailing ship on front; frontispiece of Venus de Melos (foxed), several engraved illustrations scattered through text; cloth worn at spine ends; scattered foxing. William James Stillman (June 1, 1828 July 6, 1901) was an American journalist, diplomat, author, historian, and photographer. Educated as an artist, Stillman subsequently converted to the profession of journalism, working primarily as a war correspondent in Crete and the Balkans, where he served as his own photographer. For a time, he also served as United States consul in Rome, and afterward in Crete during the Cretan insurrections. He helped to train the young Arthur Evans as a war correspondent in the Balkans, and remained a lifelong friend and confidant of Evans. Later in life, he seriously considered taking over the excavation at Knossos from Minos Kalokairinos, who had been stopped from further excavation by the Cretan Assembly; he was, however, prevented from pursuing that goal further by a failure to obtain a firman, or permission, to excavate. Stillman wrote several books, one of which, his Autobiography of a Journalist, suggests that he viewed himself primarily as a writer. Recent critics such as Andrew Szegedy-Maszak (in Antiquity and Photography, Getty Museum, 2005) have argued that Stillman's photography, especially an album of views of the Athenian Acropolis, displayed an artistic sensibility and a genius of a higher order than the rest of his work. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.

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• Titre: ON THE TRACK OF ULYSSES, together with An Excursion in Quest of the So-Called Venus de Melos: Two Studies in Archeology, Made During a Cruise among the Greek Islands including a chapter titled The Odyssey, Its Epoch and Geography
• Éditeur: Houghton, Mifflin, & Co, Boston
• Date de parution: 1888
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Archeology
  • Classical Studies
  • Travel and Exploration