ABSTRACT
When I was browsing in an old church bookshop one year, I came across a small forty-eight page book published in 1908. It was simply called, Thysia: An Elegy. The pages were brown with age, and there was only one photograph, at the beginning of the book, opposite the title page. The photograph was a small black and white plate of what appeared to be the shaded area beneath a large tree on a hillside. But beneath the photo the caption read: “Nothing to mark it but a little mound.” The author of this remarkable book chose to remain anonymous.
