Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Chaldea, and Armenia
Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Chaldea, and Armenia
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GBPThe 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 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 2 describes the journey through Armenia, and the return via Trebizond.
Product details
November 2015Paperback
9781108080996
420 pages
217 × 140 × 25 mm
0.56kg
16 b/w illus. 1 map
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Table of Contents
- 26. Roads rendered dangerous by the revolted Kurds
- 27. Journey from Sivas to Tokat
- 28. Start from Amasiyeh
- 29. Delay at Constantinople
- 30. Seyyid el Ghazi
- 31. Misis, ancient Mopsuestia
- 32. Journey across northern Mesopotamia
- 33. City of Mosul
- 34. Start for Al Hadhr
- 35. Reception by the Shammar Arabs
- 36. Start for Kurdistan
- 37. Fortress of Amadiyeh
- 38. Approach to the Tiyari country
- 39. Berdizawi
- 40. The Chaldeans as a nation
- 41. Chaldeans not papists
- 42. Start from Julamerik
- 43. Start from Urimiyeh
- 44. Town of Rowandiz
- 45. Chaldean village of Al Kosh
- 46. Castle of Konakti
- 47. Collision with the Kurds
- 48. Armenians of the district of Mush
- 49. City of Erzrum.
