Travels along the Mediterranean and Parts Adjacent
In Company with the Earl of Belmore, during the Years 1816–17–18

Physician Robert Richardson published this two-volume account of ancient and modern Egypt and the Near East in 1822.

Robert Richardson (Author)

9781108076036, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 July 2014

550 pages, 2 b/w illus. 2 maps
21.6 x 14 x 3.1 cm, 0.69 kg

After qualifying as a physician, Robert Richardson (1779–1847) joined the household of the earl of Belmore, and accompanied him and his family on a tour of the eastern Mediterranean in his yacht the Osprey, converted from a captured American schooner. Richardson dedicated this two-volume work to his patron in 1822. Having spent several months in Naples, the party travelled through the Greek islands to Constantinople, arriving in Alexandria in September 1817. Volume 2 describes further exploration in Egypt, before the party travelled into Palestine, where they visited Jerusalem and the Holy Places, and the cities of the Old Testament, continuing through Syria and Lebanon. Their intention of revisiting Greece on their return was thwarted by reports of the plague, and they arrived back in Malta in July 1818. Richardson's account is full of detail, both of the archaeological remains and of everyday life in the Middle East.

15. Thebes
16. Voyage down the Nile
17. Ruins of On
18. Departure from Cairo
19. Jerusalem
20. Bethlehem
21. Journey to Nablous
22. Damascus
23. Journey up the Barrada.

Subject Areas: Historical geography [HBTP]