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Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, etc., and of a Cruize in the Black Sea, with the Capitan Pasha, in the Years 1829, 1830, and 1831 (Paperback)
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Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, etc., and of a Cruize in the Black Sea, with the Capitan Pasha, in the Years 1829, 1830, and 1831 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor, Volume 2
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Described by one commentator as 'a man of sterling common sense,
intellectual rigour and ability', the distinguished naval officer
Sir Adolphus Slade (1804 1877) was one of the best-informed and
engaging travel writers of the nineteenth century. Later in his
career he was to spend 17 years on secondment to the Turkish navy,
heading its administration and improving its efficiency, but
already in his twenties, having served in Russia and South America,
he was keen to commit his observations of foreign lands to paper.
First published in 1832, Slade's two-volume account of his travels
in the Mediterranean and Turkey responded to the public's appetite
for colourful chronicles. It contains descriptions of fashions,
superstitions, dignitaries and despots, and covers topics ranging
from antiquities and architecture to piracy and cricket. Volume 2
includes Slade's impressions of the Tartars, the Cossacks, the
plague, Constantinople, and the habits of Muslim women.
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