A sequel to The Cyclades, a compilation of late-19th-century travel
writings (with an archaeological/ethnographical bias) centred on
the Greek Dodecanese islands (including Rhodes, Nissiros, Tilos,
Karpathos, Patmos, and Astypalea). The authors are the British
explorer J. Theodore Bent (1852-1897), devotedly supported by his
wife Mabel Virginia Anna (1847-1929). Theodore met Mabel shortly
after coming down from Oxford in 1875 and they married two years
later. They were of independent character and means and spent the
too few years until Theodore's early death on a breathless sequence
of annual travels to the Eastern Mediterranean, Africa, and
Southern Arabia. Theodore's publications are referenced still by
archaeologists and scholars working on sites or regions such as
'Great Zimbabwe', Aksum, the Wadi Hadramaut, the Cilician littoral,
and, of course, the Greek islands. Bent's first successful
monograph was based on two winters spent in the Cycladic isles
(1882/3 and 1883/4). From the start the couple kept notebooks from
which all Theodore's later lectures and literature sprang. His The
Cyclades, or Life Among the Insular Greeks was published in 1885
and has been rarely out of print since. It remains one of the most
delightful accounts in English of the region, and few serious
travellers and tourists to these islands fail to discover it. In
the year The Cyclades was published the Bents moved a little east
and explored the islands now commonly referred to as the Greek
Dodecanese. Unforeseen circumstances obliged the explorers to
curtail their activities before Theodore's writings on the area
could be edited into a monograph to complement his earlier
bestseller. Theodore's Dodecanesian output was channelled instead
into a wide range of articles, while Mabel completed three volumes
of her personal Chronicles on their daily travels and travails.
Bent never presented his Dodecanese researches to the public in a
compendium, the way he had, so brilliantly, for the Cyclades. Now,
130 years later, his The Dodecanese can appear for the first time:
a collection of reminiscences and studies on these sunny,
blue-surrounded, and delightful islands.
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