Treatise on the Comparative Geography of Western Asia
Accompanied with an Atlas of Maps
2 Volume Set
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Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
- Author: James Rennell
- Date Published: November 2014
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- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108072120
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James Rennell (1742–1830) could be claimed as the father of historical geography. After a long career at sea and in India, during which he had learned surveying and cartography, he returned to England, and entered the circle of Sir Joseph Banks, who encouraged him to widen the his interests to include the geography of the ancient world. This two-volume work was published posthumously in 1831: Rennell had been working on the topic for many years, and had published a part of his findings in 1814, as Observations on the Topography of the Plain of Troy, also reissued in this series. The area covered in the treatise is a wide one, from Egypt to the Danube and from the Aegean to the Caspian Sea. Using the works of earlier authors, and his own specialist knowledge, Rennell connects modern places to each other and seeks to identify modern with ancient sites.
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- Date Published: November 2014
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108072120
- length: 894 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 mm
- weight: 1.13kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Dedication
Preface of the editor
Preface of the author
Part I. Geographical Construction:
1. Aleppo, etc.
2. Kaswin, etc.
3. Kaswin and Ispahan
4. Southern and eastern shores of the Sea of Marmora
5. Adrianople, etc.
Part II. Asia Minor: Introduction
1. Mysia, Aeolis, and Lydia. Volume 2: Part II. Asia Minor (continued):
2. Ionia
3. Caria
4. Lycia, etc.
5. Bithynia, etc.
6. Phrygia, etc.
Part III. Roman Roads in Asia Minor:
1. Roads leading from Constantinople to Syria
2. Roman roads on the east and south-east of Constantinople
3. Roman roads on the south and south-west of Constantinople
4. Roman roads in Thrace and Moesia
Part IV. Euxine:
1. Arrian's Periplus of the Euxine Sea
2. Heraclea etc.
3. Trebizond, etc.
4. Dioscurias, etc.
5. The Cimmerian Bosphorus, etc.
6. The Chersonesus, etc.
7. The Borysthenes, etc.
8. Tomis, etc.
9. The Euxine and Caspian Seas
Index.
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