1889 Susan Wallace, Travel in Egypt, Turkey, the Bosphorus
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The Repose in EgyptA MedleyWith IllustrationsThis volume also includes Along the Bosphorus By Susan E. Wallace Troy, N.Y.: Nims & Knight. 1889.� Blue cloth hardcover with gilt lettering, 5 1/2" x 7 1/2", 391 pp. with a very few pencil markings in text, binding intact with a few weak hinges, ex libris bookplate affixed to front pastedown endpage, edges and corners rubbed, spine slightly rolled. “Susan Arnold Elston Wallace (December 25, 1830 – October 1, 1907) was an American author and poet from Crawfordsville, Indiana. In addition to writing travel articles for several American magazines and newspapers, Wallace published six books, five of which contain collected essays from her travels in the New Mexico Territory, Europe, and the Middle East in the 1880s: The Land of the Pueblos (1888), The Storied Sea (1883), The Repose in Egypt: A Medley (1888), Along the Bosphorus, and Other Sketches (1898), and The City of the King: What the Child Jesus Saw and Heard (1903). She was also the wife of Lew Wallace, a lawyer, American Civil War general, politician, and diplomat. Susan completed the manuscript of Lew Wallace's two-volume autobiography following his death in 1905, with the assistance of Mary Hannah Krout, another Crawfordsville author. Wallace died in Crawfordsville in 1907.” - Wikipedia. “Fact-based, romantic account of travel in
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