Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus, and Armenia: With Some Account of their Antiquities and Geology

by William John Hamilton

Overview

The diplomat and M. P. William Hamilton (1805–67) was also a keen geologist and a protégé of Sir Roderick Murchison. In 1835 he set off with a companion for the eastern Mediterranean, visiting the Ionian Islands, the Bosphorus and the volcanic area called the Katakekaumene. Hamilton then continued alone on horseback through Armenia and Asia Minor before returning to Smyrna (Izmir). Having already published some of his notes as papers for the Geological Society, he published this two-volume account in 1842. The work was praised by Alexander von Humboldt, and in 1843 it won Hamilton the founder's medal of the Royal Geographical Society (of which he was one of the secretaries from 1832 to 1854). Volume 2 describes Hamilton's journey along the coast of Ionia to archaeological sites including Ephesus and Rhodes, and his expedition inland to explore the Taurus mountains before his final return to Smyrna.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108042253
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/26/2012
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.30(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; 1. Journey through France and Italy; 2. Leave Trieste; 3. Leave Patras; 4. Smyrna and its environs; 5. Leave Constantinople; 6. Ruins of Hadriani; 7. Ruins of Azani; 8. Plain of Ushak; 9. Göbek; 10. Leave Koula; 11. Bournoubat; 12. Neighbourhood of Erzeroum; 13. Leave Anni; 14. Ispir; 15. Leave Trebizond; 16. Voyage from Tireboli to Kerasunt; 17. Leave Uniéh; 18. Wealth of Osman Pacha; 19. Leave Sinope; 20. Leave Vizir Keupri; 21. Leave Tocat; 22. Leave Amasia; 23. Return from Boghaz Kieui to Yeuzgatt; 24. Angora; 25. Leave Angora; 26. Leave Hamza Hadji; 27. Leave Afiom Kara Hissar; 28. Ruins of Sagalassus; 29. Leave Deenair; 30. Leave Denizli.