The Red Sea and adjacent countries at the close of the seventeenth century : as described by Joseph Pitts, William Daniel, and Charles Jacques Poncet / edited by Sir William Foster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Foster, William, 1863-1951.

Series:

Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., no. 100.

Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., no. 100

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Red Sea Region.

Physical Description:

xl, 192 p., 1 folded plate : 2 facsims., 2 maps.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With additional documents. The first narrative is from Pitts' Religion and Manners of the Mahometans (Third Edition, 1731); Daniel's journal was printed in 1702, Poncet's in 1709. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1949.

Contents:

The journey of Joseph Pitts from Algiers to Mecca and back

The journey of William Daniel from London to Mocha and back

Daniel's account of his expenses

The journey of Charles Jacques Poncet from Cairo into Abyssinia and back

De Brevedent's account of the journey to Sennar

Letter from Poncet at Jidda to the French consul at Cairo

The interrogation of Poncet at Cairo.

Notes:

First published by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxix-xl) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-317-01815-X

1-317-01816-8

1-315-55361-9

1-283-11540-9

9786613115409

1-4094-1705-0

9781315553610

OCLC:

908099427