Travels Along the Mediterranean and Parts Adjacent

In Company with the Earl of Belmore, During the Years 1816 17 18
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-108-07603-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 550 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 767 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor

After qualifying as a physician, Robert Richardson (1779-1847) joined the household of the earl of Belmore, and accompanied him and his family on a tour of the eastern Mediterranean in his yacht the Osprey, converted from a captured American schooner. Richardson dedicated this two-volume work to his patron in 1822. Having spent several months in Naples, the party travelled through the Greek islands to Constantinople, arriving in Alexandria in September 1817. Volume 2 describes further exploration in Egypt, before the party travelled into Palestine, where they visited Jerusalem and the Holy Places, and the cities of the Old Testament, continuing through Syria and Lebanon. Their intention of revisiting Greece on their return was thwarted by reports of the plague, and they arrived back in Malta in July 1818. Richardson's account is full of detail, both of the archaeological remains and of everyday life in the Middle East.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Richardson, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Expeditions- & Reiseliteratur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altes Ägypten & Ägyptische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte: Expeditionen & Entdeckungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Geographie, Landkarten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

15. Thebes; 16. Voyage down the Nile; 17. Ruins of On; 18. Departure from Cairo; 19. Jerusalem; 20. Bethlehem; 21. Journey to Nablous; 22. Damascus; 23. Journey up the Barrada.