“Cyprus is one of the renowned corners of our globe”
The portrayal of the island in nineteenth-century travel writing
Abstract
The article delves into nineteenth-century travel accounts depicting Cyprus, focusing primarily on Polish authors. However, the introductory section also considers the texts of Alphonse de Lamartine, François-René de Chateaubriand Géramb, which, translated, found resonance in the native soil and inspired Polish travelers. In the age of steam and electricity, much like in the preceding century, Cyprus seldom served as the primary destination for expeditions. Instead, it often functioned as a stopover on the lengthy pilgrimage route to the Holy Land. Consequently, knowledge of the island was typically confined to Larnaca. Among nineteenth-century Polish pilgrims whose ships made landfall along the Cypriot coast and who incorporated their stay on the island into their narratives and recollections of the journey to the Holy Land were: Ignacy Hołowiński (1839), Stanisław Tarnowski (1857–1858), Feliks Gondek (1859), Marcin Tyburcy (circa 1860), Eustachy Iwanowski (1863), Ignacy Żagiell (1863–1868), Józef Pelczar together with Kazimierz Dorszewski (1872), Tadeusz Kegel (1872), and Adam Sierakowski (1883). Their descriptions and impressions are subjected to analysis in this article.
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