Charles Dudley Warner: In the Levant.London [1879] Fifth edition,in 8vo,contemporary leather over boards,marbled edges,text clean and bright,complete 301p.,overall in very good plus condition Warner, a close friend and collaborator of Mark Twain, published his popular travelogue in 1877,the book had established itself as a staple of American travel literature.Warner’s journey took place in the winter and spring of 1875, Warner writes with the voice of a curious, skeptical, but deeply educated American tourist. He arrived in Cyprus during the very final years of Ottoman rule,before the British takeover of 1878, making his observations a valuable historical snapshot of the island in transition.Warner’s description of Constantinople in the mid-1870s is particularly evocative,he guides the reader through the classic sites but often focuses on the human comedy,the behavior of fellow travelers, the persistence of the dragomans and the sensory overload of the bazaars. Warner notes the poverty, oppression, and ignorance but also sees hopeful signs of transition toward Western industrial life. He remarked the huge acceleration of the economic power of Greeks in the Ottoman Levant of that time