A Ride through Asia Minor and Armenia
Giving a Sketch of the Characters, Manners, and Customs of Both the Mussulman and Christian Inhabitants

Civil engineer Henry Barkley's 1891 account of his journey from Bucharest, via Istanbul, to Trabzon on the Black Sea.

Henry C. Barkley (Author)

9781108037570, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 December 2011

366 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.47 kg

Henry C. Barkley (c.1825–c.1895) was a civil engineer and author. His travel books included Between the Danube and the Black Sea (1876), which covers the five years in which he was working on the construction of a railway line linking the Danube and the Black Sea, and Bulgaria before the War (1877), written at the time of the Russo-Turkish war. (He also wrote a guide to rat-catching for public-school boys, and My Boyhood (1877), a collection of tales from his own childhood.) Published in 1891, this work recounts the author's adventures on a journey that took him in 1878 from Bucharest, through Istanbul, across Asia Minor and back to Trebizond (now Trabzon) on the Black Sea coast, a distance of 1400 miles, completed in 96 days. He describes with zest and humour the habits and customs of Christian and Muslim communities that he encounters on the way.

1. Bucharest
2. Constantinople
3. Hotel at Brusa
4. The gallows-tree
5. Zaptiehs
6. Camels
7. Circassians from Bulgaria
8. Departure from Kimas
9. Sand-grouse
10. Angora
11. Country houses
12. Disobedient Yuzgat
13. Kur-Shehr
14. Sixty brothers
15. Products of the district of Kaisarieh
16. A highway to the east
17. Adana
18. Yilan Kalé (Smoke Castle)
19. Up the Giaour Dagh
20. American hospitality
21. A trout stream
22. Native visitors
23. Camels at supper
24. The Indian telegraph
25. The Aleppo Button
26. A good chausée
27. Visitors
28. Adepsis
29. Erzingan
30. The Trebizond Erzeroom Road.

Subject Areas: Middle Eastern history [HBJF1]