Crimean Antiquities through the Eyes of Edward Daniel Clarke: From Archaeology to Ideology
Journal: Izvestia of the Ural federal university Series 2 Humanities and Arts
Year: 2016

The article analyses a travelogue by British traveller Edward Daniel Clarke, which was one of the first encyclopaedic descriptions of the Crimean Peninsula, visited by the author in 1800. Clarke’s book appeared to be extraordinarily popular with his contemporaries and modern researchers, though the issue of the author’s descriptive strategy and its influence on the text’s objectivity has never been addressed previously. Clarke’s narrative combines elements of a travel journal, academic research,