Richard Pococke's letters from the East (1737-1740) / by Rachel Finnegan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finnegan, Rachel, author.

Contributor:

Finnegan, Rachel, editor.

Series:

The History of Oriental Studies ; 9.

The History of Oriental Studies ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pococke, Richard, 1704-1765--Travel.

Pococke, Richard.

Middle East--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Middle East.

Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800.

Voyages and travels.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

In Richard Pococke's Letters from the East (1737-1740) , Rachel Finnegan provides edited transcripts of the full run of correspondence from Richard Pococke's famous eastern voyage from 1737-41. In this new volume, Finnegan combines updated biographical accounts of the traveller and his correspondents (his mother, Elizabeth Pococke and his uncle and patron, Bishop Thomas Milles) from vol. 1 of the original edition of Letters from Abroad (2011) with transcriptions of the letters from vol. 3 of the series (2013), together with new material that has hitherto been unpublished. Thus, in a single volume, she sets the context of the life and times of the traveller and his family against the background of this voluminous corpus of fascinating correspondence, which can be read in conjunction with Pococke's own published account of his travels, A Description of the East and Some Other Countries (1743-45)

Contents:

Introduction

Biographical Accounts of the Pococke and Milles Families

Itinerary of the Eastern Voyage

Letters from Egypt

Accounts from Egypt

Letters from the Holy Land, Lebanon and Syria

Accounts from the Holy Land, Lebanon and Syria

Letters from the Second Tour of Egypt, and from Turkey, Asia Minor and Greece

Accounts from Cyprus and from the Second Tour of Egypt

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-44005-4

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004440050 DOI