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Travels Along the Mediterranean and Parts Adjacent

Travels Along the Mediterranean and Parts Adjacent In Company With the Earl of Belmore, During the Years 1816-17-18 - Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 1 recounts their journey up the Nile, exploring both the antiquities of Egypt and the modern cities, especially Cairo, where Richardson made the acquaintance of Burckhardt (whose death he witnessed), Belzoni, Henry Salt and other early explorers of Egypt's past. Having reached the Nile's second cataract, they returned to Thebes, where they were greeted with news of Princess Charlotte's death. Richardson's account is full of detail, both of the archaeological remains and of everyday life in modern Egypt.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781108076029
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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Language: English
Number of pages: 564
Weight: 710g
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 32mm