Poet's Bazaar : Journey to Greece, Turkey and Up the Danube

In 1840, Hans Christian Andersen left Copenhagen on a journey that would take him through Germany, Italy, and Malta, then to Greece, Turkey and up the Danube.

With a poet's eye for detail, Andersen captures his visit to the Whirling Dervishes, the slavemarkets at a bazaar in Istanbul, the breathtaking beauty of the Asian coast, and his harrowing trip up the Danube, during which oarsmen rowed against the tide and each passenger endured a ten-day quarantine under prison-like conditions.

This book itself is a remarkable journey, not just to exotic ports of call, but into the fascinating world of nineteenth-century travel.