FROM CYPRUS TO ZANZIBAR BY THE EGYPTIAN DELTA by Edward Henry Vizetelly ( 9781108046015 )

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FROM CYPRUS TO ZANZIBAR BY THE EGYPTIAN DELTA
THE ADVENTURES OF A JOURNALIST IN THE ISLE OF LOVE, THE HOME OF MIRACLES, AND THE LAND OF CLOVES

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Edward Henry Vizetelly

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CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION

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26 April, 2012

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Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies

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568

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Edward Vizetelly's 1901 memoir of his time as a journalist in the Middle East and Africa between 1878 and 1889.

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Edward Vizetelly (1847-1903) was the son of the publisher Henry Vizetelly and a perceptive war correspondent. He began his career for the Daily News and New York Times, covering the Franco-Prussian War, where he narrowly escaped being shot as a spy. This work, published in 1901, recounts the next period of his career, with vivid descriptions of people and places. In 1878, Cyprus was ceded to Britain by Turkey, and Vizetelly, then in Athens, was sent to report on the Island, where he remained for four years. In 1882, he moved to Egypt, where Arab unrest led to the massacre of Europeans in Cairo and the bombardment of Alexandria by British warships. On his return to Europe in 1889, he was commissioned by the owner of the New York Herald to find H. M. Stanley, using Zanzibar as his base. He concludes with a brief summary of subsequent events in Africa.

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