Voyage en Syrie et en Égypte pendant les années 1783, 1784 et 1785

This 1787 two-volume revised French second edition gives an important account of travels in Ottoman Egypt and the Syrian region.

Constantin-François Volney (Author)

9781108066549, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 February 2014

482 pages, 3 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.7 cm, 0.61 kg

The French author and traveller Constantin-François de Chasseboeuf (1757–1820) adopted the pen name Volney, which combined the name of Voltaire and Ferney, where the great philosopher lived. A friend of Thomas Jefferson and other Enlightenment figures, Volney used an inheritance to further his education by travelling to Ottoman Egypt and the historical region of Syria, visiting areas of present-day Lebanon and Israel. He chose these lands as he believed he would gain political and philosophical insights from their ancient heritage. Very little had been written in the West about these areas before he published this two-volume account in 1787. It enjoyed great popularity and even accompanied Darwin aboard the Beagle on his own voyage of discovery decades later. Reissued here is the revised and corrected French second edition, which also appeared in 1787. Volume 2 is devoted to Syria. It looks in detail at the region's history, justice, trade and customs.

24. Des peuples agricoles ou sédentaires de la Syrie
25. Précis de l'histoire de Daher
26. Distribution de la Syrie par pachalics
27. Du pachalic d'Alep
28. Du pachalic de Tripoli
29. Du pachalic de Saide
30. Du pachalic de Damas
31. De la Palestine
32. Résumé de la Syrie
33. Du gouvernement des Turks en Syrie
34. De l'administration de la justice
35. De l'influence de a religion
36. De la propriété et des conditions
37. Des paysans et de l'agriculture
38. Des artisans, des amrchands, et du commerce
39. Des arts, des sciences, et de l'ignorance
40. Des habitudes et du caractère des habitans de la Syrie.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]