Travels in Crete, Volume 1 - Brossura

Pashley, Robert

 
9781108050821: Travels in Crete, Volume 1

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A two-volume account of a British scholar's travels through Crete while it was under Egyptian administration, published in 1837.

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Descrizione del libro

Robert Pashley (1805–59) was a Trinity College, Cambridge Travelling Fellow who spent 1834 exploring the island of Crete, which was then under Egyptian administration, and published this two-volume account in 1837. Volume 1 discusses his arrival in Chania and the tensions between Christians and Muslims.

Contenuti

Preface; Introduction; 1. View of the White Mountains; 2. Visit to Haghios Elevtherios; 3. From Khania to Palaeokastron near the bay of Sudha; 4. Description of the ruins at Palaeokastron; 5. Plain of Apokorona; 6. Captain Manias; 7. Rhithymna; 8. Ghazaro; 9. Gonies to Tylisso, the site of Tylissos; 10. Visit to Mustafa-pasha; 11. Visit to the archbishop; 12. Population of Megalo-kastron; 13. Kastron to Arkhanes; 14. Monastery of St George; 15. From Sarko to Rhogdhia; 16. Events at Rhogdhia during the war; 17. Departure from Hierapetra; 18. The muezzin's summons to prayer; 19. Haghius Dheka; 20. Monastery of Asomatos.

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