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FACSIMILES OF THE BENTS’ CHRONICLES & NOTEBOOKS FROM THE HELLENIC SOCIETY, LONDON
In the late 1920s, Mabel Bent’s niece, Violet Ethel ffolliott (1882-1932) transferred the care of her elderly aunt’s travel diaries, as well as some notebooks of her husband’s, Theodore Bent (1852-1897), archaeologist-explorer, to the Hellenic Society in London.
What follows will take you to some very faraway places indeed – you only have to click to be transported (our pages and maps on the Bents’ explorations provide useful background information):
Greece and the Levantine Littoral
Mabel Bent (1883/4): The Greek Cyclades
Mabel Bent (1885): The Greek Dodecanese

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Theodore Bent (1888): Inscriptions from Patara, Lydae, Lissa, Myra, Kasarea, Nicaea, etc.
Bahrain and Iran

Africa and Egypt
Mabel Bent (1884/5): Egypt (before steaming to the Greek Dodecanese)
Mabel Bent (1890/1): South Africa and the expedition to Great Zimbabwe (I)
Mabel Bent (1890/1): South Africa and the expedition to Great Zimbabwe (II)
Mabel Bent (1895/6): Sudan and the western Red Sea littoral
Theodore Bent (1895/6): Sudan and the western Red Sea littoral
Mabel Bent (1897/8): Alone in Egypt (‘A lonely, useless journey’)

Southern Arabia
Mabel Bent (1893/4): Wadi Hadramaut (first attempt, via Mukalla) (I)
Mabel Bent (1893/4): Wadi Hadramaut (first attempt, via Mukalla) (II)
Theodore Bent (1893/4): Wadi Hadramaut (first attempt, via Mukalla) (I)
Theodore Bent (1893/4): Wadi Hadramaut (first attempt, via Mukalla) (II)

Mabel Bent (1896/7): Sokotra and Aden (the couple’s final exploration together)
Theodore Bent (1896/7): Sokotra
Theodore Bent (1896/7): Sokotran glossary and notes (Bent’s final notebooks)(I)
Theodore Bent (1897): East of Aden (Bent’s final notebooks)(II)
[All original Mabel Bent material courtesy of The Hellenic Society/School of Advanced Study, University of London (reproduced under Creative Commons: Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0)]