The Morea~Robert Liddell~1958~First Edition~Peloponnese Peninsula~Fine Condition~Rare Find~Free Shipping

The Morea~Robert Liddell~1958~First Edition~Peloponnese Peninsula~Fine Condition~Rare Find~Free Shipping.

This unique book on the Peloponnese peninsula is in fine condition. Minor dust jacket wear. Tight binding. One partial tag on inside front cover. See photos. Clean pages. Illustrated with a map and 39 photographs. A jewel of a find in such great condition. Thanks for your interest!

(John) Robert Liddell (13 October 1908 – 23 July 1992) was an English literary critic, biographer, novelist, travel writer and poet.

Liddell was educated at Ashdown House, East Sussex, at Haileybury School and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. During the years 1933 to 1938 he was employed at the Bodleian Library as an assistant in the Department of Western Manuscripts. Liddell then lived briefly in Athens, Greece, working as a lecturer for the British Council. During the years 1941 to 1951 he was a lecturer at the Universities of Cairo and Alexandria. From 1953 to 1972 he was employed by the University of Athens, serving for part of the time as head of the English Department. He never returned to England, and died in Athens in 1992.

While at Oxford he met the novelist Barbara Pym. The character of Dr. Nicholas Parnell in Pym’s novel Some Tame Gazelle was inspired by Liddell. During World War II he was one of the Cairo poets.

The Morea (Greek: Μορέας or Μωριάς) was the name of the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece during the Middle Ages and the early modern period. The name was used for the Byzantine province known as the Despotate of the Morea, by the Ottoman Empire for the Morea Eyalet, and by the Republic of Venice for the short-lived Kingdom of the Morea. - From Wikipedia

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