William John. Across Asia Minor on Foot … Third Impression.

by CHILDS

£200 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

CHILDS, William John. Across Asia Minor on Foot … Third Impression. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood. 1918. 8vo. Original illustrated cloth, map paste-down at the front; pp. xvi, 459, plates after photographs by the author, cloth a little marked and dulled, light offsetting to and from endpapers, occasional light spotting to text, otherwise very good. William John Childs has been identified as a British spy (John Fisher, On the Baghdad Road: On the Trail of J. W. Childs , Liverpool University Press, online). "We also know that Childs had an extremely inquisitive mind; that he was gifted in the breadth of his interests, particularly in the knowledge of the classical past of Asia Minor; that he was something of an amateur archaeologist, architectural historian, and numismatist; that, whatever his past, he was by his own admission, no stranger to the sight of blood" ( ibid. ). He crossed and meandered 1300 miles in only 54 days on foot from Samsun to Iskenderun via Tokat, Sivas, Kayseri, Adana, and Aleppo during tensions between Italy and Turkey. SKU: 2123687

• Binding: Hardcover

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