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Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Chaldea, and Armenia 2 Volume Set (Paperback)
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Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Chaldea, and Armenia 2 Volume Set (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology
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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 the
Royal Geographical Society helped to fund a further expedition,
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, he
took a route through Asia Minor, northern Syria, Kurdistan, Persia
and Armenia, returning to Istanbul in 1840. The expedition was not
regarded as a success, as Ainsworth had massively overspent 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.
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