Sunshine and Storm in the East - Mrs Brassey

Sunshine and Storm in the East,
or Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople. FIRST EDITION.

Longmans, Green, & Co. 1880

Half title, fold. map front. & fold. map at end, plates & illus. Orig. brown cloth, lettered in gilt, dec. in gilt, red and black.

Top of spine detached.  See picture. 

The Brasseys (Baroness Annie and her husband Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey) made several voyages in their steam-assisted schooner The Sunbeam during the 1870s and 80s, with Annie Brassey writing well-received travelogues charting their adventures. This example relates the narrative of two voyages, one in the western Mediterranean in 1874 and another in 1878 to Cyprus and Constantinople. Annie Brassey died in 1887, succumbing to malaria while undertaking a trip to Australia. Thomas Brassey went on to become governor of Victoria.

Rare.