A Trip to the Orient: The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise

A traveler recounts a Mediterranean cruise, combining descriptions of shipboard routines and social life with guided visits to ports and monuments around the sea. Chapters follow stops ranging from Atlantic islands and Gibraltar to southern Spain, North African cities, Malta, classical Athens and the Acropolis, Constantinople and the Bosporus, pilgrim sites in Jerusalem, and major Egyptian antiquities including the Pyramids, Luxor and Karnak, plus Naples, Pompeii, and Riviera towns. The narrative alternates practical travel notes, vivid scene-setting, and reflections on art, architecture, and religion, and is illustrated by numerous photographs that accompany the episodic, day-by-day account.