From Broken Bits of Byzantium (1872) by C. G. Curtis
Colorful snapshots of 16th-20th c. life in Smyrna, Beirut and Alexandria. Beyond the repetitive theme of combustible cosmopolitanism, I found Mansel's structure a little chaotic.
https://www.amazon.com/Levant-Catastrophe-Mediterranean-Philip-Mansel/dp/030018171X