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Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Chaldea, and Armenia

Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Chaldea, and Armenia

Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Chaldea, and Armenia

Volume 1:
William F. Ainsworth
November 2015
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    The surgeon William Ainsworth (1807–96) acted as the geologist of the 1835 Euphrates Expedition, his account of which is also reissued in this series. Great interest was aroused by the scientific and archaeological findings of that journey, and a further expedition was funded, ostensibly to make contact with the Nestorian Christians of the region, but covertly to make further mineralogical investigations. Ainsworth was the leader of the expedition, and his two-volume account was published in 1842. Starting from Istanbul in 1839, Ainsworth took a route through Asia Minor, northern Syria, Kurdistan, Persia and Armenia, returning to Istanbul in 1840. The expedition was regarded as unsuccessful, as Ainsworth had massively overspent on the budget originally allotted by the sponsors, and his secret activities were discovered by the Ottoman authorities, but the work remains a vivid account of the area. Volume 1 covers events up to the battle of Nezib in 1839.

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    November 2015
    Paperback
    9781108080989
    386 pages
    217 × 142 × 24 mm
    0.53kg
    24 b/w illus. 2 maps
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    Table of Contents

    • Introduction
    • 1. Suburb of Constantinople
    • 2. Ismid
    • 3. The hero's stone
    • 4. The hollow rock
    • 5. Upland of Iflani
    • 6. Virgin's castle
    • 7. Town of Osmanjik
    • 8. Town of Changri
    • 9. A French instructor of cavalry
    • 10. Quit Angora
    • 11. Deserted mines and foxes
    • 12. Utch Ayak
    • 13. Christians of Nev Shehr
    • 14. Koch Hisar
    • 15. Iron village
    • 16. Kaiseriyeh
    • 17. Viran Shehr
    • 18. Start from Derendah
    • 19. Passage of the Taurus
    • 20. Vale of Gergen Kafehsi
    • 21. Retrospective
    • 22. Town of Birehjik
    • 23. Prisoners of water
    • 24. Position of the Turks turned by the enemy
    • 25. Line of retreat.
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    • William F. Ainsworth