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Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Chaldea, and Armenia (Paperback)
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Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Chaldea, and Armenia (Paperback)
Series: Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Chaldea, and Armenia 2 Volume Set, Volume 1
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The surgeon William Ainsworth (1807-96) acted as the geologist of
the 1835 Euphrates Expedition, his account of which is also
reissued in this series. Great interest was aroused by the
scientific and archaeological findings of that journey, and a
further expedition was funded, ostensibly to make contact with the
Nestorian Christians of the region, but covertly to make further
mineralogical investigations. Ainsworth was the leader of the
expedition, and his two-volume account was published in 1842.
Starting from Istanbul in 1839, Ainsworth took a route through Asia
Minor, northern Syria, Kurdistan, Persia and Armenia, returning to
Istanbul in 1840. The expedition was regarded as unsuccessful, as
Ainsworth had massively overspent on the budget originally allotted
by the sponsors, and his secret activities were discovered by the
Ottoman authorities, but the work remains a vivid account of the
area. Volume 1 covers events up to the battle of Nezib in 1839.
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