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Richard Pococke's Letters from the East (1737-1740)

English · Hardback

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In Richard Pococke's Letters from the East (1737-1740), Rachel Finnegan provides edited transcripts of the full run of correspondence from Richard Pococke's famous eastern voyage from 1737-40, together with updated biographical accounts of the author and his correspondents (his mother, Elizabeth Pococke and his uncle and patron, Bishop Thomas Milles).

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Rachel Finnegan, PhD. (1991), National University of Ireland, is a freelance academic editor. She has published widely on Richard Pococke, including an edition of his travel correspondence in 3 vols (2011-2013) and English Explorers in the East (1738-1745): The Travels of Thomas Shaw, Charles Perry and Richard Pococke (Brill, 2019).

Product details

Authors Rachel Finnegan
Publisher Brill
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 05.11.2020
 
EAN 9789004440043
ISBN 978-90-04-44004-3
No. of pages 500
Weight 956 g
Series History of Oriental Studies
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic

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