For this subject in particular, it is difficult to identify places and dates: but, on the other hand, the sea is always the sea, and it matters little if the photos of the games that played on board to pass the time or to celebrate the passage of the Equator were made at this longitude or at that, or whether the nun whom we see absorbed in embroidering was headed for a mission in Libya or was returning from Mozambique: what we are offered is a glimpse of a world that, even if not chronologically very far from our own, nonetheless presents enormous differences, differences that we tend to forget with surprising ease.
Here are the steamships with travellers who went out of their way to find pastimes, harbours, sail boats and row boats, the adventurous landings of passengers where docks didn’t exist, in short, the “everyday” life of the nineteenth-century traveller.
The Corsair in the Tropics (1893)
The Corsair in the Tropics (1893)
The Corsair in the Tropics (1893)
The Corsair in the Tropics (1893)
Captain with Laura Doria and her daughter Orietta - Isola del Giglio
Captain with Laura Doria and her daughter Orietta - Isola del Giglio
Captain with Laura Doria and her daughter Orietta - Isola del Giglio
Captain with Laura Doria and her daughter Orietta - Isola del Giglio
Captain with equinoctial ring - Africa (1907-1908)
Captain with equinoctial ring - Africa (1907-1908)
Captain with equinoctial ring - Africa (1907-1908)
Captain with equinoctial ring - Africa (1907-1908)
The Captain with Corsair Hat (1882-1895)
The Captain with Corsair Hat (1882-1895)
The Captain with Corsair Hat (1882-1895)
The Captain with Corsair Hat (1882-1895)
Gaiassa along the Nile, 1901
Gaiassa along the Nile, 1901
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Gaiassa along the Nile, 1901
Gaiassa along the Nile, 1901
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The Captain on the job
The Captain on the job
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The Captain on the job
The Captain on the job
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Corsaro yacht, Kiel, 1905
Corsaro yacht, Kiel, 1905
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Corsaro yacht, Kiel, 1905
Corsaro yacht, Kiel, 1905
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Piazza San Marco, Venice, 1899
Piazza San Marco, Venice, 1899
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Piazza San Marco, Venice, 1899
Piazza San Marco, Venice, 1899
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