Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, etc., and of a Cruize in the Black Sea, with the Capitan Pasha, in the Years 1829, 1830, and 1831

This early publication (1832) by the naval officer Sir Adolphus Slade contains entertaining accounts of pirates, sultans, dignitaries and despots.

Adolphus Slade (Author)

9781108026017, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 February 2011

538 pages, 1 colour illus. 1 map
21.6 x 14 x 3 cm, 0.68 kg

Described by one commentator as 'a man of sterling common sense, intellectual rigour and ability', the distinguished naval officer Sir Adolphus Slade (1804–1877) was one of the best-informed and engaging travel writers of the nineteenth century. Later in his career he was to spend 17 years on secondment to the Turkish navy, heading its administration and improving its efficiency, but already in his twenties, having served in Russia and South America, he was keen to commit his observations of foreign lands to paper. First published in 1832, Slade's two-volume account of his travels in the Mediterranean and Turkey responded to the public's appetite for colourful chronicles. It contains descriptions of fashions, superstitions, dignitaries and despots, and covers topics ranging from antiquities and architecture to piracy and cricket. Volume 1 describes the early part of his journey, including his impressions of the Bosporus, the Danube delta and Sevastopol.

Preface
1. Auberge
2. Attivo
3. Syra
4. Dr. Musmezzi
5. Caiques
6. Steam-boat
7. Chess
8. Character of Sultan Mahmoud
9. Beys of Albania
10. Confidence in the Capital
11. Buyukderé
12. Passage of the Danube
13. Hamid Aga
14. Sevastopol.

Subject Areas: Middle Eastern history [HBJF1]