Itinerary

[In progress]

1910
Summer Stockholm

1911-12
September-November 1911 Italy
November 1911-August 1912 Greece (“the old territories of Greece, as well as [...] Krete and the Athos Peninsula”) and Turkey (“I was just in time to see the Turkish flag still flying over Salonica and Durazzo. Perhaps that can hardly count as a visit to the Turkey of to-day.”)
“In 1911-12 [...] I had travelled on foot (the best way) over the country round Rome as far as Tarquinii (Corneto), Hispellum (Spello), and Caieta (Gaeta), and over Continental European Greece as far north as Pharsalus and the Ambracian Gulf; and I had also walked over the eastern two-thirds of the island of Crete and over the Athos peninsula.” Over 3,000 miles in a little over a year.
September 30 1911 train between Genoa and Rome
November 14 “The writer [traversed] the stretch of country from Ostia to the gap between Terracina and Monte Circello [...] by tram.”
October 30 sight of Assisi from Spello
November 20 Corinth Canal, sailing from the Gulf of Corinth to the Saronic Gulf
August 1912 return to England via the Austrian Adriatic ports of Cattaro, Ragusa and Trieste, then overland, via Salzburg, to Flushing (Holland), thence to Folkestone

In 1969 Toynbee published a detailed itinerary of his journeys in the Southern Peloponnese in 1912. “These journeys were made on foot, except where some other means of conveyance is mentioned.”
February 20 Athens-Kalamatá (by train)
February 21 Kalamatá-Petalídhi-Áyios Andréas-Koróni (Coron) (by steamer)
February 22 Koróni-Módhon-Navaríno
February 23 Navaríno-Lyghoudhísta-Gharghaliáni-Philiatrá
February 24 Philiatrá-Kyparissía; Kyparissía-Olympia (by train)
April 15 Thermísi-Ermíoni; Ermíoni-Pétses-Leonídhi skála-Ástros skála (by steamer)
April 16 Ástros skála-Thyrea–Áyios Pétros-Arákhova
April 17 Arákhova-Kelephína valley (with the Judas trees in blossom)-Khani of Krevatás-Sellasía battlefield-Sellasía-Sparta
April 18-19 at Sparta; visit Therapnê
April 20 Sparta-Khrýsapha-Yeráki
April 21 Yeráki-Alepokhóri-Apidhiá-MoIáous
April 22 Moláous-Neápolis (Boiai)
April 23 Neápolis-Monemvasía
April 24 Monemvasía-Epídauros Limerá-Zárax fjord- Yeráka
April 25 Yeráka-Rikhéa-Katavóthra-Pákia-Káto Vezáni (Helos)
April 26 Káto Vezáni-iron bridge over R. Eurotas-Laghíou-Trínisa-Yýthion
April 27 At Yýthion
April 28 Yýthion-Pássava (Las Vetus)-Karyoúpolis-Tsímova-Pyrgos
April 29 Pyrgos-Kítta-Álika-Porto Marinári-Porto Quaglio-Páliros-Cape Matapan (Taínaron)-Páliros
April 30 Páliros-Laghía-Kótronas (by mule)
May 1 Kótronas-Kávvalos-Tsímova (by mule)
May 2 Tsímova-Liméni
May 3 Liméni-Port Trakhéla-Rénglia skála-Kardhamýli-Kalamáta (by steamer)
May 4 Kalamáta-Athens (by train)
May 10 Athens-Argos (by train)
May 11 Argos-Nemea station (by train)-Nemea-Áyios Yeórgios
May 12 Áyios Yeórgios-top of Mt. Phouká-Vasilikó (Sikyôn)
May 13 Vasilikó-Soúli-Kleménti-Dhoúsia
May 14 Dhoúsia-StymphâIos-Gkoúra
May 15 Gkoúra-Lake Pheneós-0rkhomenós-Levídhi
May 16 Levídhi-Vytína-Dhimitsána
May 17 at Dhimitsána
May 18 Dhimitsána-Karýtena- Tsinán (Megalopolis)
May 19 Tsinán-across north-eastern headwaters of R. Alpheios-across Alpheios-Eurotas watershed-Khani of Khelmós
May 20 Khani of Khelmós-Kalývia Yeoryitsiátika-Sparta
May 21 and 22 at Sparta
May 23 Sparta-Mistrá-Trýpi
May 24 Trýpi-Langhádha Pass-Ládha-Karvéli-Yiánnitsa-Kalamáta
May 25 Kalamáta-Tsepheremíni (by train); Tsepheremíni-Mavrommáti-top of Mt. Ithômê Mavrommáti
May 26 Mavrommáti-bridge over R. Mavrozoúmeno-Soulimá-Pávlitsa (Phigaleia)
May 27 Pávlitsa-temple at Bassai-Andrítsena
May 28 Andrítsena-Aipy
May 29 Aipy-Samikó-Kréstena-Olympia

1918-19
December 1918-April 1919 Paris, Peace Conference, Member of the Foreign Office section of the British delegation

1921
Greece and Turkey, reporting on the Greco-Turkish war for The Manchester Guardian (“I saw Constantinople, the Asiatic shores of the Sea of Marmara, the western seaboard of Anatolia as far south as the river Maeander, and also northern Thessaly and western Macedon, including Lyncestis, Eordaea, and Elimiotis.”)
January 15 arrival at Athens from England
January 15-26 Athens
January 27-March 15 Smyrna, and the following journeys into the hinterland:
February 1-8 Alashehir, Ushaq, Kula, Salyhly, Sardis
February 11-18 Ephesus, Kirkinjé, Aidin, Tiré, Torbaly
February 26-March 10 Manysa, Soma, Kinik, Bergama, Yukhara Bey Keui, Aivali, Dikeli
March 17-August 2 Constantinople, and the following journeys into the hinterland:
March 27-April 5 Brusa, Pazarjyk, Kovalyja, Nazyf Pasha, Yenishehir, Köprü Hissar
April 7-13 Brusa, Gemlik, Ermeni Sölös
May 24-25 Yalova
June 2-6 Gemlik, Ömer Bey, Yalova
June 13-18 Gemlik, Ömer Bey, Armudlu
June 22-27 Armudlu, Gemlik
June 27-July 3 Ismid, Baghchejik, Karamursal, Eregli, Deirmenderé
August 3-8 Smyrna
August 9-September 1 Athens, and the following journey into the hinterland:
August 16-26 Tripolitsa, Sparta, Mistrá, Trýpi, Kalamáta, Vurkáno, Mavrommáti, Meligalá, Ísari, Astála, Kokolétri, Bassae, Pavlitsa, Kyparissía, Samikó, Olympia, and back via the Pyrgos-Patras-Korinth railway (“In August 1921, Professor H.T. Wade-Gery and I walked from Sparta via Trýpi and the Langhádha Pass to Kalamáta, took the train to Tsepheremíni for Mavrommáti, went over the top of Mt. Ithômê to Meligalá station, and took the train to Kyparissía.”)
September 1-9 Athens to Constantinople via Lárisa and Salonika, with an excursion to Flórina, Kozháni, and Shátishta
September 9-16 Constantinople
September 16 departure from Constantinople for England (at one point in the same passage, the Preface to his book about the war, he says September 15)

1923
Third visit to Turkey and meeting with Atatürk
April 30 first visit to Venice, en route by rail to Turkey, but fails “to advance farther than the pair of Late Roman Emperors in porphyry who embrace one another on the threshold of St. Mark’s”
First visit to Ankara (Ancyra)

1925
First visit to United States

1928
Easter Latvia and Lithuania

1929-30
To Japan and back (“In 1929 I travelled, via Ankara and the Cilician Gates, to the two northern cities of the Seleucis, Antioch-on-Orontes and Seleucia Pieria, en route, through Aleppo and Damascus, for Basra and Japan.”)
By car from London, or from Calais, to Constantinople (fourth visit to Turkey). Toynbee’s wife drove a Ford, Toynbee helping occasionally, and two of their sons accompanied them. Then by train alone through Turkey and Syria, by bus from Damascus to Baghdad, by train to Basra; by boat from Basra to Karachi, overland to Bombay, and from Bombay to Shimonoseki by sea via Colombo, Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai. The return journey from Japan was overland through Russia, after a side-visit to Korea and China. The date here means that he arrived in the place on that date and spent a night or nights there or thereabouts. There is a preference for night trains.
July 23 1929 Dover
July 24 Bapaume, France
July 25 St Menehould, France
July 26 Strasbourg
July 27 Böhringen, Germany
July 28 Munich
July 30 Schwanenstadt, Austria
July 31 Vienna
August 3 Budapest
August 5 Bihar Keresztes, Hungary
August 6 Klausenburg = Kolozsvar = Cluj, Rumania
August 7 Hermannstadt = Sibiu, Rumania
August 8 Kronstadt = Brašov, Rumania
August 9 Bucarest
August 13 Ruschuk, Bulgaria
August 14 Grabrovo, Bulgaria
August 15 Svilengrad, Bulgaria
August 16 Adrianople
August 18 Chorlu, Turkey
August 19 Constantinople
August 27 train between Constantinople and Angora
August 28 Angora
In Ankara Toynbee leaves his wife (the children had remained in Constantinople) and continues east on his own. His destination is Kyoto for the third conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations.
August 30 train between Angora and Koniya
August 31 train between Koniya and Aleppo
September 1 Aleppo
September 2 Damascus
September 6 omnibus between Damascus and Baghdad
September 7 Baghdad
September 12 Hillah
September 13 train between Hillah and Basra
September 14 boat between Basra and Karachi
September 19 Dak Bungalow on Makli Hill, Sind (near Karachi)
September 20 train between Hyderabad, Sind, Pakistan and Jodhpur, India
September 21 Jodhpur
September 22 Ahmedabad
September 23 train between Ahmedabad and Bombay
September 24-26 Bombay
September 27-October 18 boat between Bombay and Kobe
September 30 in dock at Colombo (sailed before night)
October 3 in dock at Penang
October 5 in dock at Singapore
October 10 in dock at Hong-Kong
October 14-15 in dock at Shanghai
October 18 on the Inland Sea between Shimonoseki and Kobe
October 19 Nara
October 20 Koya San
October 21 Yoshino
October 22-25 Nara
October 26-November 9 Kyoto
November 10 Nagoya
November 11 train between Nagoya and Tokyo
November 12 Tokyo
November 13 train between Tokyo and Shimonoseki
November 14 boat between Shimonoseki and Fusan
November 15 Seoul (the Japanese name during the occupation was Keijo)
November 16 train between Seoul and Antung
November 17-18 Mukden, China
November 19 train between Mukden and Harbin
November 20-21 Harbin
November 22 train between Harbin and Dairen (now Dalian)
November 23-25 Dairen
November 26 train between Mukden and Peking
November 27-December 13 Peking
December 14 train between Tientsin and Wei-Hai-Wei
December 16-20 Wei-Hai-Wei
December 21-22 boat between Wei-Hai-Wei and Shanghai
December 23-25 Shanghai
December 26 train between Shanghai and Nanking
December 27 Nanking
December 28 train between Nanking and Shanghai
December 29-January 2 Shanghai
January 3-4 1930 boat between Shanghai and Kobe
January 5 Kobe
January 6-9 Nara
January 10 Kyoto
January 11-12 boat between Tsuruga and Vladivostok
January 13 Vladivostok
January 14-23 train between Vladivostok and Moscow
January 24-25 Moscow (arrived at 12.45 am on the night of the 24th-25th)
January 26 train between Moscow and Stolpce (Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic)
January 27 train between Stolpce and Berlin
January 28 train between Berlin and Ostend
January 29 London

1932
United States

1936
February Berlin and meeting with Hitler

1947
February 8-April 26 1947 US and Canada
February 20 Princeton University
March 19 New York, Union Theological Seminary
April 7 Harvard University
April University of Toronto
Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto branches of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs

1948
Greece and Turkey (“My wife and I did a week’s travelling by road, as guests of the Turkish Government, in East Central Anatolia. We visited Boghazqal‘eh, Amasia, Tokat, Sivas (Sebastia), Cappadocian Caesaria, the Cilician Gates again (this time by road, not by rail), Tarsus, and Adana.”)
October 28 “The writer flew over [the] stretch of country from Ostia to the gap between Terracina and Monte Circello.”

1951
Switzerland

1952
May 5 Chicago, National Arts Foundation
June 23 New York or Washington, Council on Foreign Relations

1953
April 14-May 16 Mexico
April 23-26 pueblos founded by Vasco de Quiroga
October 12 or just before Italy, Santo Speco by Subiaco
October 13-16 Rome, European Round Table Discussion under the joint auspices of the Council of Europe and the Italian Government

1954
September 28 The Hague
November 5 Harvard University, Russian Research Center
November 8 Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies

1955
Rome, International Congress of the Historical Sciences
Newton, Massachusetts, Andover Newton Theological School; Cambridge, Massachusetts, Episcopal Theological School; New York, New York, Union Theological Seminary
June 20 Berlin, Freie Universität
October 19 Albany, New York, Cathedral of All Saints, opening address at Church and Work Congress
November 6 Minneapolis, Northrop Memorial Auditorium

1955-65
Five visits to West Germany to address popular and university audiences

1956-57
Round the world (“We first struck the post-Alexandrine Hellenic World in February 1957 at Arikamedu, the Hellenic ‘factory’ on the south-east coast of India, just south of Pondichéry. Between that date and the beginning of August 1957, we visited Takashasila (Taxila) and Purushapura (Peshawar) in Gandhara, the capitals of the Kushan Empire); I travelled from Babylon to within sight of the Caspian Gates, up the great north-east road which was the Seleucid monarchy’s spinal cord, as it had been the Persian Empire’s; and, from a base of operations in Beirut (the Phoenician city and Roman colony Berytus), I also visited Hatra and Arbela, and [...] Petra and Palmyra; the two southern cities of the Seleucis: Laodicea (Lattaqieh) and Apamea-over-Orontes; the Phoenician cities Aradus (Ruad) and Antaradus (Tartus); and a number of places in Coele Syria: Baalbek and the springs of Orontes and of Jordan; the cities of the imperial age of Hellenic history in the Jabal Druz and the Hauran; Philadelphia (‘Amman), Gerasa, and Gadara in the Decapolis; Byblos, Sidon, and Tyre on the Phoenician coast; Gaza and Raphia on the Philistine coast; and finally the walled city of Jerusalem, whose street-plan reveals that of Hadrian’s Aelia Capitolina.”)
February 20 1956 night London – Gander, Newfoundland (air)
February 21 Gander – Bermuda – Nassau – (over) Eastern Cuba – Mondego Bay – Kingston, Jamaica (air)
February 22 Kingston – north coast of Jamaica – Kingston (road)
February 23 Kingston – Barranquilla, Colombia (air)
February 24 Barranquilla – Cartagena de Indias (road)
February 24-March 3 in and around Cartagena
March 3 Cartagena – Bogotá (air)
March 3-10 in and around Bogotá
March 10 Bogotá – Cali (air)
March 11 Cali – Quito (no landing) – Cali (air)
March 12 Cali – Quito – Cali (air)
March 14 Quito – Guayaquil – Lima (road)
March 15 Guayaquil – Lima (air)
March 15-April 25 based on Lima
March 18 Lima – Pachacamac – Lima (road)
March 19 Lima – Cajamarquilla – Vista Allegre – Lima (road)
March 22 Lima – Bartolo – Tambo de Mora and la Sentinela – Parácas (road)
March 23 Parácas Peninsula (Lagunillas, Cerro Colorado, Cerro Amarillo necropolis) and Tambo Colorado (road)
March 24 Parácas – Cerro do Oro – Lima (road)
March 26 Lima – Ancón necropolis – Paramangas – Pañamarca – Chimbote (road)
March 27 Chimbote – Chanchán – Dragón – Autares del Sol y de la Luna – Trujillo (road)
March 28 Trujillo – Fanfán – las Guitarras – Chiclayo – Lambayeque – Túcume – Purgatorio – Chiclayo (road)
March 29 Chiclayo – Trujillo (road)
March 30 Trujillo – Lima (road)
April 8 Lima – Arequipa (air)
April 9-10 night Arequipa – Juliáca (rail)
April 10 Juliáca – Puno (rail); Puno – Pomata – Puno (road)
April 11 Puno – Juliáca – Cuzco (rail)
April 11-14 in and around Cuzco
April 14 Cuzco – Machu Picchu (autocarril)

1957
February Indian Scool of International Studies
February, last week New Delhi and second meeting with Nehru (the first had been in London “at some date in the nineteen-thirties”)

1958
February 11 Lexington, Virginia, Washington and Lee University
September 5 Fiftieth Anniversary Conference of the Harvard Business School Association
Guatemala

1959
May Berlin, Freie Universität
May 12 Heidelberg, Aula of the Neue Universität
July 12 Mainz, Germany, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität (lecturing in German)
November 2 Rome, tenth conference of Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

1960
To India, West Pakistan and Afghanistan
February 19 9.30 am take-off from London airport (jet aircraft)
Feburary 20 5.00 am landing at New Delhi
February 20-23 New Delhi and third meeting with Nehru
February 24 New Delhi – Karachi (air)
February 25 excavations of early Muslim Indus-port at Bhampore
February 25 9.00 pm departure Karachi (train)
February 26 1.13 pm arrival Multan
February 26-28 Multan
February 28 evening Multan – Chenab Bridge-Multan (road)
February 29 Multan – Harappa – Baloki Barrage – Lahore (road)
March 1 7.30 am departure Lahore (road)
March 1 5.50 pm arrival Peshawar
March 1-30 on the campus of the University of Peshawar
March 2 Peshawar – Warsak Dam – Jamrud – Peshawar (road)
March 4 Peshawar – Charsadda – Mardan – Malakand – Thana – Malakand – Nowshera – Peshawar (road)
March 6 Peshawar through Khyber Pass to Torkham and back (road)
March 11 Peshawar – Attock – Abbotabad – Kakûl Military Academy – Abbotabad – Haripur – Turbela – bridge of boats over the Indus – Jahangiri – bridge of boats over the Kabul River – Nowshera – Peshawar (road)
March 13 Peshawar – Kohat – Khushhalgarh – Kohat – Peshawar (road)
March 16 Peshawar – Rawal Pindi (road)
March 17 morning Rawal Pindi – Peshawar (road)
March 17 afternoon Peshawar – Mardan – Shahbazgarh (Ashoka’s two inscriptions) – Mardan – Peshawar (road)
March 18 Peshawar – Kohat (Officers’ Training School) – Peshawar (road)
March 20 Peshawar – Shabkadar Fort – Abazai – Charsadda – Peshawar (road)
March 23 Peshawar – Charsadda – Takht-i-Bhai – Mardan – Nowshera – Peshawar (road)
March 25 Peshawar – Kund Rest-House – Khairabad – Attock Rest-House – Peshawar (road)
March 27 Peshawar – Nowshera – Mardan – Swabi – Ambar – Hund and back (road)
March 30 Peshawar – Lahore (air)
March 30-31 Lahore
April 1 Lahore – New Delhi (air)
April 1-17 New Delhi, with expeditions into Rajasthan
April 2 New Delhi – Siri (Begampuri Mosque, Khirki Mosque, Satpula Dam, Chiragh Walled City) – New Delhi (road)
April 3 New Delhi – Jaipur (air); Jaipur – Ajmer (road)
April 15 New Delhi, Indian School of International Studies

1961
Montreal, McGill University
January 31 Hillel House, Montreal, debate with Yaacov Herzog, the Israeli ambassador to Canada
Spring Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania
May 6 Philadelphia, annual conference of the American Council for Judaism
May 12 University of Michigan, Honors Convocation
June 1 University of Denver
June 10 Williamsburg, Virginia, address at the capitol
June 11 NBC studios for Meet the Press, presumably Washington, DC
December 2-22 United Arab Republic

1962
February University of Puerto Rico
Spring Italy, “five weeks’ journey in the Mezzogiorno”
June 6-13 Morocco
October 11 Houston, Semicentennial Convocation of Rice University, Houston Music Hall
Visits to several Turkish universities
November 19 Istanbul

1963
Grinnell, Iowa, Grinnell College
Venezuela

1964
February 19-April 22 Nigeria, Sudan, Ethiopia, United Arab Republic, Libya
Last quarter Denver, Colorado, University of Denver

1965
First quarter Sarasota, Florida, New College; Sewanee, Tennessee, University of the South

1966
Latin America, including at least Chile, Brazil and Argentina (in Argentina in September)

1967
November 9-December 13 third visit to Japan

1968
March 20 Netherlands, University of Leiden
April 1 Paris, Institut de France

1969
Greece
February 10 West Germany, television broadcast with Südwestrundfunk, perhaps from Baden-Baden

1972
Athens

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Toynbee’s statement in 1952 that “though he had three times been shunted into and out of Venice by train en route between Calais and Constantinople, he had not set foot in Venice till the third of these occasions – on the 30th April, 1923, between the hours of 5.0 and 6.0 A.M. – and had then failed to advance farther than the pair of Late Roman Emperors in porphyry who embrace one another on the threshold of St. Mark’s” is confusing, unless you take en route as referring not to him but to the train. His 1923 visit was his third to Turkish territory, but he arrived first in Smyrna, having sailed from Athens. His first visit did not take him to Constantinople at all. How did he travel between Italy and Greece in 1911?

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In 1958 he writes: “The gaps in my first-hand knowledge of the Hellenic World are large and serious. I have not yet seen Magna Graecia, Sicily, or Tunisia; Epirus or Paeonia (the present Jugoslav Macedonia); Amphipolis or Philippi or Mount Pangaeus; Rhodes, Caria, or Lycia; the Ukraine or Egypt (the two main sources of the Hellenic World’s grain-supply); or Bactria or the Paropanisadae (both now in Afghanistan).” He would visit some of these places later: Afghanistan in 1960, Egypt in 1961, “the Mezzogiorno” in 1962.

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He writes in the tenth volume of the Study: “The glory of God, declared [footnote: Psalm xix. 1.] in the beauty of die unbegreiflich hohen Werke [footnote: Goethe: Faust, l. 249.] upon which the puny works of Man have been embroidered, was revealed to me when I saw Parnassus and Helicon and the Acrocorinthus from the Gulf of Corinth; the Acropolis of Athens from round the shoulder of Salamis; Olympus from Dhomokó (a white peak floating on air); Taÿgetus, stern-on, from Dhimitsána; the mountains of Crete from the crater-rim of Santorin, as they reared their heads out of the sea in the sudden visibility lent to them by nightfall; the Sun setting through the Golden Gate at San Francisco; the Via Appia Antica and the Inland Sea of Japan in the moonlight; Nara haunted by its holy deer; monasteries perched like eyries on the crags of Athos; cenotaphs of the heroes of Japan under the shadow of giant cryptomerias on Koya San; the Great Wall of China wriggling like a snake over billowy mountains; the Roman Wall crowning the crags at Howsteads; the Siebengebirge writhing down on to the Great North European Plain; the Great North Road running out of Seoul to seek Peking; the Rocky Mountains rushing, for an hour before we reached them, to meet our aeroplane at a speed of three hundred miles an hour; the skyline of New York from the eastern approaches; the battlements of the Kremlin at 2.30 a.m. on a winter’s night; Lake Baikal with the Sun setting behind its engirdling mountains, as the train picked its way round the southern shore; the valley of the Connecticut River clad in its autumn scarlet and gold; the Mongol Valley of the Shilka and the Ottoman valley of the Hebrus; Boghazqal‘eh offering a grander stage than Hisārlyq for the Second Book of The Aeneid; the apparition, between serried palm-groves and serried palm-groves, of majnūn wharves and refineries at Abadān; Cologne Cathedral looming up at the end of a transcontinental journey home to Western Christendom from Vladivostok; the purple citadel of Jodhpur and the blue sky piercing rose-red marble fretworks at Ahmadabad; the ruins of Rievaulx Abbey from the terrace above; the Sainte Chapelle; Chartres Cathedral; Durham Cathedral seen stern-on from across the river, and the overwhelming first impression of the giant round columns, weirdly carved in hypnotizing patterns; Waynflete’s chantry in the cloisters of the College of St. Mary de Winton prope Winton; the ilex in the cloisters of the College of St. Mary de Winton ad Oxon; the Ayía Sophía, the Küchük Ayía Sophía, and the mosque of Mehmed Sököllü Pasha in Istanbul; the tiles in the mosque of Rüstem Pasha; the Qahrīyeh Jāmi‘sy with its live mosaics; the Green Mosque at Brusa; the masonry of Aleppo; the Altar and Temple of Heaven at Peking; the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon at Teotihuacán; the church-crowned pyramid at Cholula; Palenque defying the tropical forest; the thirsty cities of the Puuc; Monte Alban, at whose epiphany in his majesty the Acropolis of Sardis dwindles to the stature of a mole-hill; the cock-crows rising, faint but clear, from a sleepy city far below, as the dawn breaks upon the summit of the citadel of Afyūn Qāra Hisār; the blue wall of Taurus rising up sheer on either hand, as we sight it at the watershed en route from Nigdeh to the Cilician Gates; the bust of Antiochus the Great and the statue of Julian the Apostate in the Louvre; the bust of Nefertiti in the Reichsmuseum at Berlin.”

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A Study of History refers to some of these travels. There are details in The Western Question in Greece and Turkey, A Journey to China, An Historian’s Approach to Religion, East to West, Hellenism, Between Oxus and Jumna, The Present-Day Experiment in Western Civilization, America and the World Revolution, The Economy of the Western Hemisphere, Hannibal’s Legacy, Between Niger and Nile, Change and Habit, Acquaintances, Between Maule and Amazon, Experiences, Some Problems of Greek History, Susan Morton’s bibliography, the correspondence with Columba Cary-Elwes, and William McNeill’s biography. For an introduction to Toynbee’s travel books, see this post.

Morton should be used carefully here. Presenting a paper to a conference or symposium does not mean you attended it. An interview broadcast on a foreign television channel and then printed might have been recorded in London.

The reference to German television in 1969 is from http://www.birth-of-tv.org/.

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