Treatise on the Comparative Geography of Western Asia
Accompanied with an Atlas of Maps

This 1831 two-volume work surveys an area from Egypt to the Danube and from the Aegean to the Caspian Sea.

James Rennell (Author)

9781108072106, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 November 2014

460 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.6 cm, 0.58 kg

James Rennell (1742–1830) could be claimed as the father of historical geography. After a long career at sea and in India, during which he had learned surveying and cartography, he returned to England, and entered the circle of Sir Joseph Banks, who encouraged him to widen the his interests to include the geography of the ancient world. This two-volume work was published posthumously in 1831: Rennell had been working on the topic for many years, and had published a part of his findings in 1814, as Observations on the Topography of the Plain of Troy, also reissued in this series. The area covered in the treatise is a wide one, from Egypt to the Danube and from the Aegean to the Caspian Sea. In Volume 1, Rennell lays out his geographical findings, and begins to discuss the relations of the modern to the ancient world.

Dedication
Preface of the editor
Preface of the author
Part I. Geographical Construction: 1. Aleppo, etc.
2. Kaswin, etc.
3. Kaswin and Ispahan
4. Southern and eastern shores of the Sea of Marmora
5. Adrianople, etc.
Part II. Asia Minor: Introduction
1. Mysia, Aeolis, and Lydia.

Subject Areas: Historical geography [HBTP]