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The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II
Chapters
21 totalCHAP. - XX. CONSULAR LIFE IN CRETE - XXI. THE CRETAN INSURRECTION - XXII. DIPLOMACY - XXIII. ATHENS - XXIV. ROSSETTI AND HIS FRIENDS - XXV. RETURN TO JOURNALISM - XXVI. THE MONTENEGRINS AND THEIR PRINCE - XXVII. THE INSURRECTION IN HERZEGOVINA - XXVIII. A JOURNEY IN MONTENEGRO AND ALBANIA - XXIX. WAR CORRESPONDENCE AT RAGUSA - XXX. THE WAR OF 1876 - XXXI. RUSSIAN INTERVENTION AND THE CAMPAIGN OF 1877 - XXXII. A JOURNEY INTO THE BERDAS - XXXIII. THE TAKING OF NIKSICH - XXXIV. MORATSHA - XXXV. THE LEVANT AGAIN - XXXVI. GREEK BROILS—TRICOUPI—FLORENCE - XXXVII. THE BLOCKADE OF GREECE - XXXVIII. CRISPI—A SECRET-SERVICE MISSION—MONTENEGRO REVISITED - XXXIX. ITALIAN POLITICS - XL. ADOWAH AND ITS CONSEQUENCES - CHAPTER XX - CONSULAR LIFE IN CRETE
CHAPTER XXI - THE CRETAN INSURRECTION
CHAPTER XXII - DIPLOMACY
CHAPTER XXIII - ATHENS
CHAPTER XXIV - ROSSETTI AND HIS FRIENDS
CHAPTER XXVI - THE MONTENEGRINS AND THEIR PRINCE
CHAPTER XXVII - THE INSURRECTION IN HERZEGOVINA
CHAPTER XXVIII - A JOURNEY IN MONTENEGRO AND ALBANIA
CHAPTER XXIX - WAR CORRESPONDENCE AT RAGUSA
CHAPTER XXX - THE WAR OF 1876
Description
The second volume picks up as the reporter, fresh from Rome, is dispatched to the troubled Levant in the early 1870s. A deadly cholera outbreak has shut down regular traffic to the Ottoman ports, and he finds himself stranded in Athens, then forced to wait weeks on the island of Syra while ships are held in a strict, almost punitive quarantine. With a camera in hand and a determination to keep moving, he finally secures passage on a modest English yacht to the besieged Canea, stepping into a consular post that has been left empty for years.
Upon arrival he discovers a deserted consulate, a solitary Greek vice‑consul hoisting a flag, and a powerful pasha who relishes testing any foreign official. When the night patrol arrests the vice‑consul’s son, our new consul demands an apology and a proper punishment, only to meet the pasha’s stubborn refusal and a tangled appeal to Constantinople. The episode sets the tone for a career marked by diplomatic intrigue, cultural misunderstandings, and the journalist’s relentless drive to document a region on the brink of upheaval.
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Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Release date
2004-03-01
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
About the author
William James Stillman
1828–1901
A restless 19th-century observer who moved from landscape painting into journalism, diplomacy, and photography, leaving behind a vivid record of art, politics, and conflict. His life and work sit at the crossroads of American culture and the wider Mediterranean world.
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