Childs W.: “Across Asia Minor on foot.” London 1917 First and only edition. In 8vo 22x14cm, contemporary cloth rubbed, some scattered spotting, mostly clean and bright, complete 459p. with many photographs of Asia Minor, overall very good. Childs travel account in 1913 is the last great travel across Anatolia before the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. He crossed the peninsula from the Pontic coast in the Euxine Sea to Cilicia in the Mediterranean. He provides unique and detailed travel accounts for several places as he had walked 1.300 miles on foot around Anatolia. He was really impressed to see Greek kids in Sampsounta (Samsun), in the Pontos area, fundraising openly in the public, for the profit of Greek war Navy, in the middle of Turkey, just few months after the crushing victories of the Greeks in the Aegean. Scarce