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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 the five years in which he was working on the construction of a railway line linking the Danube and the Black Sea, and Bulgaria before the War (1877), written at the time of the Russo-Turkish war. (He also wrote a guide to rat-catching for public-school boys, and My Boyhood (1877), a collection of tales from his own childhood.) Published in 1891, this work recounts the author's adventures on a journey that took him in 1878 from Bucharest, through Istanbul, across Asia Minor and back to Trebizond (now Trabzon) on the Black Sea coast, a distance of 1400 miles, completed in 96 days. He describes with zest and humour the habits and customs of Christian and Muslim communities that he encounters on the way.
List of contents
1. Bucharest; 2. Constantinople; 3. Hotel at Brusa; 4. The gallows-tree; 5. Zaptiehs; 6. Camels; 7. Circassians from Bulgaria; 8. Departure from Kimas; 9. Sand-grouse; 10. Angora; 11. Country houses; 12. Disobedient Yuzgat; 13. Kur-Shehr; 14. Sixty brothers; 15. Products of the district of Kaisarieh; 16. A highway to the east; 17. Adana; 18. Yilan Kalé (Smoke Castle); 19. Up the Giaour Dagh; 20. American hospitality; 21. A trout stream; 22. Native visitors; 23. Camels at supper; 24. The Indian telegraph; 25. The Aleppo Button; 26. A good chausée; 27. Visitors; 28. Adepsis; 29. Erzingan; 30. The Trebizond Erzeroom Road.
Summary
Published in 1891, this book recounts the author's adventures on a journey in 1878 that took him from Bucharest, through Asia Minor and back to Trabzon on the Black Sea coast. He describes the habits and customs of Christian and Muslim communities that he encounters on the way.
