Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, etc., and of a Cruize in the Black Sea, with the Capitan Pasha, in the Years 1829, 1830, and 1831

By:

Adolphus Slade

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor

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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. It contains descriptions of fashions, superstitions, dignitaries and despots, and covers topics ranging from antiquities and architecture to piracy and cricket. Volume 2 includes Slade's impressions of the Tartars, the Cossacks, the plague, Constantinople, and the habits of Muslim women.

Release date NZ

February 17th, 2011

Author

Adolphus Slade

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Illustrations

1 Plates, color

Pages

526

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor

Dimensions

30x216x140

ISBN-13

9781108026024

Product ID

9453597

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