In "The Grand Tour and Beyond: British and American Travellers in Southern Italy, 1545–1960" (which is chapter 4 of "The Evolution of the Grand Tour: Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations since the Renaissance"), Edward Chaney wrote that "the true heir to the great tradition of the 'pedestrian tour' in our own century has been 'pagan-to-the-core' Norman Douglas. Having first visited the south of Italy with his brother in 1888, before he was 30 he had abandoned his pregnant Russian mistress and his job at the British Embassy in St Petersburg and purchased a villa at Posillipo. By then he had also published his first piece on the subject of southern Italy..."