author
W. Cope (William Cope) Devereux
1837–1903
A Victorian travel writer with a taste for vivid firsthand experience, he wrote about both Mediterranean journeys and naval service off East Africa. His books mix scene-setting, observation, and the moral tone often found in 19th-century travel writing.
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Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
by W. Cope (William Cope) Devereux
About the author
Little is firmly documented in the sources I could confirm, but W. Cope Devereux is credited as the author of A Cruise in the "Gorgon" (1869) and Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo (1884). Those works place him among the 19th-century English travel writers who turned long journeys into detailed narrative for general readers.
A Cruise in the "Gorgon" recounts eighteen months on H.M.S. Gorgon during anti-slave-trade operations on the East African coast, and contemporary listings note that it includes a trip up the Zambesi with David Livingstone. His later Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo shifts to continental travel, describing Italy, Sicily, Malta, and the Riviera with an eye for landscape, history, and social commentary.
Because reliable biographical information about his personal life is scarce in the material I found, it is safest to remember him through his books: lively Victorian travel narratives shaped by movement, empire, and close observation of the places he visited.