Joy Unconfined!: Lord Byron's Grand Tour Re-Toured - Hardcover

Strathcarron, Ian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1904955746 ISBN 13: 9781904955740

Publisher: Signal Books, 2011

Synopsis

?Lord Byron completed his Grand Tour of the Mediterranean between 1809 and 1811, leaving England at the age of twenty-one as an undiscovered soul and returning as Byron, with all that implies: the brand, the baggage and the brio. Strathcarrons re-Tour follows in Byrons footsteps, revisiting the places the poet visited two hundred years ago and comparing what he found then to what one finds there now. At each point the re-Tour meets todays equivalents to the kings, consuls, governors, chieftains and gangsters that the Grand Tour met before it. Witty and perceptive, the re-Tour reveals much about Lord Byron and much too about how the world has changed in two centuries.

About this title

About the Author:

Lord Strathcarron is an author, publisher, mediator and counsellor who strays between Old Hampshire and the Mediterranean. More on: www.ianstrathcarron.com

Review:

'Byron's love of Greece, his dramatic role in its struggle for independence, and his understanding of how ancient and contemporary might meet in its lands and on its seas, have made him part of Greek history. It good to have a book showing us the living context - how this process happened, how we cam to share on of our major poets with the Greeks.' --Ruth Padel

"A spirited re-tracing, by land and sea, of the Mediterranean adventures of the 'mad, bad and dangerous-to-know' poet." --Jason Elliot

About this edition

• Publisher: Signal Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1904955746
• ISBN 13: 9781904955740
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 263