Love letters, travel updates, expressions of grief, boredom, excitement, and longing: this book brings together more than 150 postcards written by passengers aboard the Lotus, a French liner that connected Marseille with the great ports of the eastern Mediterranean between 1898-1931. Written by pilgrims and poets, soldiers and scholars, royals and revolutionaries, the messages offer rare glimpses into everyday life during one of the most transformative periods of modern history. An afterword explores the ship’s enduring legal legacy as the namesake of international law’s famous Lotus Case of 1927.
ArbetstitelOn the Lotus - Postcards 1898-1931
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Publiceringsdatum2026-10-08 00:00:00
FörfattareValentin Jeutner
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