Travels in Asia Minor
Travels in Asia Minor

Author: RICHARD. CHANDLER

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Published: 2018-04-20

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781379882923

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T051597 With an errata leaf following p. xiii of the second Roman sequence. Oxford: printed at the Clarendon press. M.DCC.LXX.V. Sold by J. Dodsley, J. Robson, T. Cadell, P. Elmsly, and G. Robinson, London, and by D. Prince, Oxford, [1775] xiv;xiii, [3],283, [1]p., plate: map; 4°

Literature of Travel and Exploration
Literature of Travel and Exploration

Author: Jennifer Speake

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05-12

Total Pages: 1425

ISBN-13: 1135456631

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Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

Travels in Asia Minor, Or an Account of a Tour Made at the Expense of the Society of Dilettanti (Classic Reprint)
Travels in Asia Minor, Or an Account of a Tour Made at the Expense of the Society of Dilettanti (Classic Reprint)

Author: Richard Chandler

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-05-23

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780259994299

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Excerpt from Travels in Asia Minor, or an Account of a Tour Made at the Expense of the Society of Dilettanti Hundred Pounds per Ammm, to commence from the Dayiof, your Arrival at that, Place, you giving Drafts, figned, by Mr. Chandler, and Mr. Revett or Mr. Pars; The; whole to, be difpofed. Of as fol: '5 lows viz. One Hundred Pounds, a Year to Mr. Revert; _e_ighty Pounds; aiyeat' to Mr; Pars, who are-each. Of Them to be paidqne Qlarter in; ad vance the remaining Six Hundred and Twenty 18 to be applied to the common Purpofes of. The Jour ney, by Mr. Chandler, who 15 to be Treafurer, Pay mailer, and Accomptant, and may appropriate, to his private Ufe, fuch Part of that Sum, as he Ihall' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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

Author: Rachel Finnegan

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-10-20

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9004440054

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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).

Colossae, Colossians, Philemon
Colossae, Colossians, Philemon

Author: Alan H. Cadwallader

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Published: 2023-05-15

Total Pages: 815

ISBN-13: 364750002X

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The material culture of Colossae is here for the first time given as full a collation as possible to the present day. 38 inscriptions, 88 coins and 49 testimonia are brought together in the context of a thorough overview of the site of Colossae. These include evidence that has been thought lost or has been overlooked or misinterpreted or has only recently been discovered. New readings, insights and analyses of the material evidence are brought into a highly creative exchange with the two letters of the Second Testament connected with the site. The texts thereby become additional evidence for an appreciation of the life of a city in the first two centuries of the Common Era. The fullest collation of evidence for the ancient Phrygian city in the Greco-Roman period was the coin catalogue assembled by Hans von Aulock (1987). The most recent catalogue of the inscriptions of Colossae was published by William Calder and William Buckler in 1939. There has never been a full inventory of ancient writings that bear witness to the site. Alan H. Cadwallader in his volume not only updates this material by subjecting it to thorough, critical analysis in the light of comparative evidence from across the Roman province of Asia and the Mediterranean world. New discoveries from the site and from museums and collections in the United Kingdom, Europe, Russia, Australia and the United States are introduced. Into this assemblage and interpretation are brought the letters to the Colossians and Philemon in the Second Testament writings of the Christian Church. For the first time, the letters are released to be players in the highly competitive environment of a city negotiating its way in the new realities of imperial Rome. Here the letters and their recipients become participants in the society of the day, contributing, critiquing and struggling to forge an identity for the Christ followers within that world. Echoes of the gymnasium, gladiatorial spectacles, cosmological speculations, religious devotion and sanction, family structures, commerce and industry, struggles for justice, intercity competition and legal negotiations are found in the letters, echoes that witness to their participation in the life of Colossae. This is a radical new approach, incorporating the turn to material culture as the embedding of literature and its consumers rather than an embellishing backdrop.

Fragments of Colossae
Fragments of Colossae

Author: Alan Cadwallader

Publisher: ATF Press

Published: 2015-09-11

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1925232557

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An engagingly visual guide book to a lost city from a scholar in the forefront of research on Colossae. Alan Cadwallader distils information, insights and interpretation into a rich collection of evidence from Colossae and its environs, giving us access to a fascinating and under-researched city. Together with a significant chapter by Rosemary Canavan, Cadwallader's often ground-breaking work gives us unprecedented access into the life and context of this city. A book for all who enjoy time travel with expert guides!