Archibald Pollock Black: A Hundred Days in the East.London 1865 First edition, in 8vo, contemporary publishers green hard covers,upper cover with fine blinded gold ornament,complete 612p., 6 plates and two maps,text clean and bright,overall in almost fine condition. A classic Victorian Grand Tour of the Levant.Black’s work is written as a daily journal. This gives it a sense of immediacy and traveler’s truth. He records the frustrations of the road, the cost of supplies, and the raw first impressions of sites that were becoming iconic for the British middle class.As the title suggests, Black attempted to cover an enormous amount of ground in exactly one hundred days. After visiting briefly the Holy Land and Egypt,headed to Constantinople and later to Greece basically in Athens and toured around. His descriptions of the Bosphorus echo the visual delight found in other travelers but with a more practical sensibility.In Greece he was deeply impressed by the beauty of the place and the folklore of the local people. A rare travel account on Greece of the 1860s