Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus, and Armenia
With Some Account of their Antiquities and Geology

A two-volume account published in 1842 by geologist William Hamilton, describing his travels and researches in Asia Minor in 1835.

William John Hamilton (Author)

9781108042253, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 January 2012

592 pages, 6 b/w illus. 1 map
21.6 x 14 x 3.3 cm, 0.74 kg

The diplomat and M.P. William Hamilton (1805–67) was also a keen geologist and a protégé of Sir Roderick Murchison. In 1835 he set off with a companion for the eastern Mediterranean, visiting the Ionian Islands, the Bosphorus and the volcanic area called the Katakekaumene. Hamilton then continued alone on horseback through Armenia and Asia Minor before returning to Smyrna (Izmir). Having already published some of his notes as papers for the Geological Society, he published this two-volume account in 1842. The work was praised by Alexander von Humboldt, and in 1843 it won Hamilton the founder's medal of the Royal Geographical Society (of which he was one of the secretaries from 1832 to 1854). Volume 1 describes Hamilton's outward journey to Smyrna, and the archaeological sites, geological features, landscapes and people he observed on a long series of excursions across Anatolia, as far as Trebizond and Erzurum.

Preface
Introduction
1. Journey through France and Italy
2. Leave Trieste
3. Leave Patras
4. Smyrna and its environs
5. Leave Constantinople
6. Ruins of Hadriani
7. Ruins of Azani
8. Plain of Ushak
9. Göbek
10. Leave Koula
11. Bournoubat
12. Neighbourhood of Erzeroum
13. Leave Anni
14. Ispir
15. Leave Trebizond
16. Voyage from Tireboli to Kerasunt
17. Leave Uniéh
18. Wealth of Osman Pacha
19. Leave Sinope
20. Leave Vizir Keupri
21. Leave Tocat
22. Leave Amasia
23. Return from Boghaz Kieui to Yeuzgatt
24. Angora
25. Leave Angora
26. Leave Hamza Hadji
27. Leave Afiom Kara Hissar
28. Ruins of Sagalassus
29. Leave Deenair
30. Leave Denizli.

Subject Areas: Historical geography [HBTP]