Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and Across the Desert into Egypt : : During the Years 1799, 1800, and 1801 in Company with the Turkish Army and the British Military Mission /

Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and Across the Desert into Egypt : : During the Years 1799, 1800, and 1801 in Company with the Turkish Army and the British Military Mission / / William Wittman.

A historic travelogue with an eye toward the medical conditions encountered along the way, this rare book sheds light on western Asia from a unique vantage-point. Wittman describes his journey through Turkey, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt, noting along the way the diseases suffered by the residents, a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
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Wittman, William,
Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Kiraz Historic Travels Archive
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Physical Description:1 online resource (684 p.) :; 24
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • About the Author
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • CHAPTER I. Military Mission appointed to proceed to Turkey
  • CHAPTER II. Visit to Pera. Captain Franklin returns to England
  • CHAPTER III. Removal to Buvukdere. Description of that village
  • CHAPTER IV. Visit to Levant Chiflick, in compliance with the orders of the Grand Seignor
  • CHAPTER V. Departure from Constantinople. Voyage to Chennecally
  • CHAPTER VI. Reception at Constantinople
  • CHAPTER VII. The Mission set sail from Constantinople ; anchor at Prince's Iilands
  • CHAPTER VIII. Junction with the Grand Vizier
  • CHAPTER IX. Progress through the Holy Land
  • CHAPTER X. Irregularities in the Turkish camp
  • CHAPTER XI. The army of the Grand Vizier
  • CHAPTER XII. Page Narrative returned. Breaking up of the camp at Jaffa
  • CHAPTER XIII. Excursion to the pyramids of Giza
  • CHAPTER XIV. Excursion to Old Cairo
  • CHAPTER XV. Description of Grand Cairo
  • CHAPTER XVI. Arrest of the Mameluke Beys
  • CHAPTER XVII. Plague breaks out in the buildings occupied by the British Mission
  • CHAPTER XVIII. Voyage on. the Nile from Cairo to Rosetta
  • CHAPTER XIX. Departure for Constantinople. Stormy weather
  • CHAPTER XX. Appearance and dress of the Greek women of the island of Scio
  • CHAPTER XXI. Embarkation at Buyukdere
  • CHAPTER XXII. Journey through Germany. Lintz
  • ADVERTISEMENT
  • APPENDIX
  • ON OPHTHALMIA
  • INDEX

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