The Cruise of the Vanadis

edith wharton jonas dovydenas

Full-color photographs highlight Wharton's account of her three-month 1888 cruise aboard a chartered yacht through the Aegean Islands, in an anthology of writings that includes the author's detailed descriptions of the places she visited, the people she met, and the hotels in which she stayed. 25,000 first printing.

Genres nonfiction

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1910

This edition

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Published: June 19, 2004 by Rizzoli
ISBN: 9780847826094
ASIN: 0847826090
Language: English

About the author

edith wharton

Edith Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, for her novel, The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.

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April 17,2025

Okay, so this was written probably as a private journal, not meant for outside eyes. Then someone got a hold of it in this century and published it, with pictures (fun) and proceeds going to The Mount, Wharton's estate in MA. so that's lovely, obviously. But the travel narrative really is like reading someone's diary/planner (as in 10AM "I did this" 11AM "I did this"). And I can't say this trip was all that interesting. Also, can I just say my pet-peeve about this book was the formatting of the pictures. Why not put the photos actually NEAR the text they represent. Then it functions like a guide-book style account as opposed to disconnected text/pictures. I know: I nitpick. But god, is it so much to ask for a travel narrative by your favorite author to function like a travel narrative? Apparently, yes.

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