British encounters with Syrian-Mesopotamian overland routes to India, 1751-1795 : rethinking enlightenment improvement /: rethinking enlightenment improvement. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mohammad Sakhnini.
• Authors: Sakhnini, Mohammad
• Contents: <p style="text-align: justify;">Acknowledgment; Introduction; Chapter One Improvement of Knowledge: John Carmichael’s A Journey From Aleppo to Busserah, Over the Desert (1772); Chapter Two Polite Englishman in the East: Edward Ives’s Journey from Persia to England (1773); Chapter Three Commerce, Virtue and Improvement: Abraham Parsons’s Travel in Asia and Africa (1808); Chapter Four Henry Abbott: A Cosmopolitan in Cities and Deserts; Chapter Five Eyles Irwin’s Travels: The Politics of Adventure in the Levant; Chapter Six Political and Moral Improvement: Donald Campbell, A Journey Overland to India Partly by A Route Never Gone Before by Any European (1795); Conclusion; Unpublished Manuscripts; Reference List; Index
• Publisher Details: London : Anthem Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 820.9325609033; Travelers' writings, British -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Enlightenment -- Great Britain; English -- Middle East -- Intellectual life; Middle East -- In literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781785279386; 9781785279379
• Related ISBNs: 9781785279362
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