Buch, Englisch, 1062 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 1370 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
Buch, Englisch, 1062 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 1370 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
ISBN: 978-1-108-02603-1
Verlag: CAMBRIDGE
Described by one commentator as 'a man of sterling common sense, intellectual rigour and ability', the distinguished naval officer Sir Adolphus Slade (1804–1877) was one of the best-informed and engaging travel writers of the nineteenth century. Later in his career he was to spend 17 years on secondment to the Turkish navy, heading its administration and improving its efficiency, but already in his twenties, having served in Russia and South America, he was keen to commit his observations of foreign lands to paper. First published in 1832, Slade's two-volume account of his travels in the Mediterranean and Turkey responded to the public's appetite for colourful chronicles. Containing descriptions of fashions, superstitions, diets, dignitaries and despots, and covering topics ranging from antiquities and architecture to piracy and cricket, this book remains of interest to historians, archaeologists and travel enthusiasts alike.
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- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
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Volume 1: Preface; 1. Auberge; 2. Attivo; 3. Syra; 4. Dr. Musmezzi; 5. Caiques; 6. Steam-boat; 7. Chess; 8. Character of Sultan Mahmoud; 9. Beys of Albania; 10. Confidence in the Capital; 11. Buyukderé; 12. Passage of the Danube; 13. Hamid Aga; 14. Sevastopol. Volume 2: 15. Rodosto; 16. Hadgi Toozoon; 17. Kasan Pass; 18. Selimnia; 19. Pera; 20. Of Constantinople (Stamboul); 21. Constantinople (continued); 22. On the Osmanleys; 23. On Mussulman women; 24. Capitan Pasha; 25. Marizza; 26. Schooner; 27. Fever; 28. Tertian fever.