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)

9781108042260, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 January 2012

560 pages, 6 b/w illus. 1 map 4 tables
21.6 x 14 x 3.2 cm, 0.7 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 2 describes Hamilton's journey along the coast of Ionia to archaeological sites including Ephesus and Rhodes, and his expedition inland to explore the Taurus mountains before his final return to Smyrna.

31. Smyrna
32. Leave Sighajik
33. Leave Boudroum
34. Town of Rhodes
35. Leave Rhodes
36. Return to Constantinople
37. Leave Aidinjik
38. Leave Singerli
39. Geology of the Catacecaumene
40. Leave Koula
41. Leave Afiom Kara Hissar
42. March of Cyrus from Celaenae to Iconium
43. Leave Koniyeh
44. Leave Ak Serai
45. Caesarea
46. Leave Caesarea
47. Ruins in Soanli
48. Leave Kiz Hissar
49. Karaman
50. Leave Tris Maden
51. Leave Kara Agatch
52. Reach the Chaal Toprak
Appendices
Index.

Subject Areas: Historical geography [HBTP]