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Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia, etc. - During the Years 1812 and 1813 (Paperback)
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Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia, etc. - During the Years 1812 and 1813 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe
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Sir Henry Holland (1788-1873) was a passionate and intrepid
traveller from a young age. In addition to a distinguished career
as court physician - first to Caroline of Brunswick, then to Queen
Victoria and Prince Albert - he sought to keep two months of each
year free to travel. His trip to Greece formed part of a European
tour that Holland undertook in 1812-13 after having taken his
medical degree at Edinburgh. Holland focuses on the lesser-known
islands and parts of Macedonia and Albania, and gives a unique
first-hand account of the Albanian vizier Ali Pasha (1740-1822),
whom he befriended while visiting his court. The publication of
Holland's travelogue in 1815 enhanced his reputation greatly and he
was elected Fellow of the Royal Society that year. The book
contributed to the early nineteenth-century fascination with Greece
that would later lead Lord Byron to join the Greek War of
Independence.
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