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Blackmer notes that the author held a diplomatic appointment in Athens in 1838 where he remained until 1845 when he returned to England with the rest of his family via Constantinople and the Danube.
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[SKENE, James Henry] The Danubian Principalities, the frontier lands of the Christian and the Turk. By a British resident of twenty years in the East, London: Richard Bentley, 1854, 2 volumes, 8°, third edition, lithographed plate and folding map (spotting to first few leaves of both volumes affecting plate, map and titles), original green publisher's cloth (spines faded). (2)