Memoirs Relating to European and Asiatic Turkey : And Other Countries of the East Paperback / softback
by Robert Walpole
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor series
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Robert Walpole (1781–1856), great-nephew and namesake of Britain's first prime minister, was a classical scholar and clergyman.
After graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge, he visited Greece and the Middle East.
This work, first published in 1817 and reissued in its second edition in 1818, consists of extracts from the unpublished papers of J.
B. S. Morritt, John Sibthorp, Philip Hunt, J. D. Carlyle and other travellers, with descriptions of antiquities, and notes by the editor.
The topics vary considerably and reflect the wide interests of contemporary educated and travelled men at a time when many were extending their Grand Tour to the Eastern Mediterranean.
They include discussions of the weakness of the Turkish government, observations on natural history, accounts of Greek Orthodox monastic libraries including those of Mount Athos, and descriptions of Greek pottery and archaeological excavations.
The book remains a rich source for scholars from a wide range of disciplines.
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- Pages:678 pages, 10 Plates, black and white; 4 Maps; 3 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/02/2012
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- ISBN:9781108044028
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:678 pages, 10 Plates, black and white; 4 Maps; 3 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/02/2012
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- ISBN:9781108044028
