1954 First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper in protective mylar. 263pp Octavo. Original blue cloth boards, titles to front gilt and to spine black, top edge blue, others untrimmed. Pictorial dust-jacket priced at 30s net, sketch map drawn by EG Morton, photographic plates throughout and in-text drawings by the author. Title-page wood-cut vignette by Reynolds Stone, double page black and red map by E G Morton. Stark recounts her travels through what is now western Turkey, all the while reflecting on the great works of the classical authors, particularly Herodotus the historian and Pausanias the geographer.