Memoirs Relating to European and Asiatic Turkey

Robert Walpole

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia
• Robert Walpole (1781-1856), great-nephew and namesake of Britain's first prime minister, was a classical scholar and clergyman. After graduating from ... Lees meer

Travels in the East

Constantin Von Tischendorf

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia
• This work, first published in 1847, is an account by Constantin von Tischendorf (1815-74) of his journeying in the Middle East at the beginning of the... Lees meer

A Ride to Khiva

Fred Burnaby

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia
• It is 1875, the time of the 'Great Game', when the British and Russian Empires are vying for power in central Asia. A British officer rides for Khiva,... Lees meer

Amurath to Amurath

Gertrude Bell

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia
• Traveller, archaeologist, mountaineer and diplomat, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) poured her extraordinary talents into a series of adventures through Eur... Lees meer

The Penetration of Arabia

David George Hogarth

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia
• The archaeologist D. G. Hogarth (1862-1927) was, when he died, keeper of the Ashmolean Museum and president of the Royal Geographical Society. During ... Lees meer

An Englishwoman in a Turkish Harem

Grace Ellison

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia
• Grace Ellison (d. 1935) was a journalist and suffragette with a fascination for Turkish culture. This book, first published in 1915, is a collection o... Lees meer

Eastern Pilgrims

Agnes Smith Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia
• The Scottish twin sisters Agnes Lewis (1843-1926) and Margaret Gibson (1843-1920), heiresses of an extremely wealthy man, between them learned numerou... Lees meer

Modern Egypt

Evelyn Baring

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia
• Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841-1917), was a British statesman and colonial administrator. After a successful career in the War Office he was ... Lees meer

An Englishwoman in Angora

Grace Ellison

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia
• Grace Ellison (d.1935) was a journalist with an enthusiasm for Turkish culture. She had previously published works on life in a liberal Turkish family... Lees meer

Travels in Various Countries of the East

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia
• Robert Walpole (1781-1856), great-nephew and namesake of Britain's first prime minister, was a classical scholar and clergyman. After graduating from ... Lees meer

On Horseback Through Asia Minor 2 Volume Set

Fred Burnaby

• Boek | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia
• Frederick Burnaby (1842-85) joined the Royal Horse Guards in 1859, but, when not assigned to active duty, he crafted his own adventures. He ballooned ... Lees meer

A Brief Description of the Holy Sepulchre Jerusalem and Other Christian Churches in the Holy City

George Jeffery

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia
• As the purported site of the resurrection of Jesus, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre has been a centre of pilgrimage since at least the fourth century... Lees meer

The Land of Moab

Henry Baker Tristram

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia
• Clergyman and ornithologist H. B. Tristram (1822-1906), an early supporter of Darwin, became both a Fellow of the Royal Society and Canon Residentiary... Lees meer

Safar Nameh

Gertrude Bell

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia
• This book of 'Persian Pictures' is the first published work of Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), the celebrated traveller, archaeologist, Orientalist and sup... Lees meer

Letters from Egypt, 1863-65

Lucie Duff Gordon

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia
• Lucie Duff Gordon (1821-1869) was a translator and travel writer. Forced to leave England in 1851 due to tuberculosis, she went first to South Africa ... Lees meer

Journal d'Antoine Galland Pendant Son Séjour À Constantinople, 1672-1673 2 Volume Paperback Set

Antoine Galland

• Boek | Frans | Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia
• The French orientalist Antoine Galland (1646-1715) held the chair of Arabic at the Collège de France from 1709 until his death. He was the first Europ... Lees meer

Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope 3 Volume Set

Charles Lewis Meryon

• Boek | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia
• Charles Lewis Meryon (1783-1877) was the personal physician to the unconventional and adventurous Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839), who left England i... Lees meer

Ludolph Von Suchem's Description of the Holy Land, and of the Way Thither

Ludolf Von Suchem

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia
• NB blurb exists for Latin version so don't send this one out of house. Lees meer

The Thousand and One Churches

William Mitchell Ramsay, Gertude L Bell

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia
• Written by two of the most eminent Anatolian experts of the day, this book on church history and architecture in Turkey was first published in 1909. S... Lees meer

A Ride Through Asia Minor and Armenia

Henry C Barkley

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia
• Henry C. Barkley (c.1825-c.1895) was a civil engineer and author. His travel books included Between the Danube and the Black Sea (1876), which covers ... Lees meer

Travels in Palestine, Through the Countries of Bashan and Gilead, East of the River Jordan

James Silk Buckingham

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia
• Cornish-born writer, traveller and controversialist James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855) spent much of his early life as a sailor in the Atlantic and the... Lees meer

Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan 2 Volume Set

Isabella Bird

• Boek | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia
• Isabella Bishop (née Bird) published her Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, compiled from a series of letters home, in 1891. Recommended an open-air li... Lees meer

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 2 Volume Set

Adolphus Slade

• Boek | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia
• Described by one commentator as 'a man of sterling common sense, intellectual rigour and ability', the distinguished naval officer Sir Adolphus Slade ... Lees meer

Travels in Arabia Deserta 2 Volume Set

Charles Montagu Doughty

• Boek | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia
• Western exploration of the Arabian Desert began in the mid-eighteenth century, but it was not until the nineteenth century that the British officers o... Lees meer