Travels and Discoveries in the Levant - Paperback Set Travels and Discoveries in the Levan

Klappentext An account from 1865 of archaeologist C. T. Newton's travels and excavations on the coast of Turkey between 1852 and 1859. Zusammenfassung C. T. Newton (1816–1894) was celebrated for his excavation of the tomb of Mausolus of Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. This account from 1865 describes his archaeological investigations along the coast of Turkey between 1852 and 1859. Volume 1 covers the years 1852–1855. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Departure from England; 2. Athens; 3. Constantinople; 4. Description of Mytilene; 5. The Archbishop of Mytilene; 6. A Turkish Mejlis; 7. A Levantine steamer; 8. Eresos; 9. Arrival of Mr. J. E. Blunt; 10. Arrival of Ali Nehad Effendi; 11. Visit to Salonica and the Troad; 12. First impressions of Rhodes; 13. Ancient Rhodes; 14. Visit to Monastery of Zambika; 15. My muleteer Panga; 16. A cruise with Mr. Finlay to Scio; 17. Tour in Rhodes; 18. Visit to Cos in the Sampson; 19. Arrival of Lord Carlisle in the Firebrand; 20. Preparations for war with Russia; 21. Trianda; 22. Return to Turkey via Athens; 23. A Cruise to Tenedos with Ismael Pasha; 24. The Courban Bairam; 25. Departure for Calymnos; 26. Rhodes; 27. Calymniote divers; 28. Excavations on an Acropolis; 29. Manoli the Cassiote; Appendix; Notes.

Product details

• Authors: Newton Charles Thomas, Charles Thomas Newton, Newton Charles Thomas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2010
• EAN: 9781108017428
• ISBN: 978-1-108-01742-8
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology; Travels and Discoveries in the Levant 2 Volume Set 2 Volume Paperback Set
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Turkey, Ancient World, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Türkiye / Turkey