Richard Pococke's letters from the East (1737-1740)
By: by Rachel Finnegan
Series: The History of Oriental Studies -- 9; History of Oriental studies -- 9
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9789004440043; 9789004440050
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Travel; Correspondence; Voyages and travels; Early works to 1800; Description and travel; Letters
Description: "In Richard Pococke's Letters from the East (1737-1740), Rachel Finnegan provides edited transcripts of the full run of correspondence from Richard Pococke's famous Eastern voyage from 1737-41. In this new volume, Finnegan combines updated biographical accounts of the traveller and his correspondents (his mother, Elizabeth Pococke and his uncle and patron, Bishop Thomas Milles) from vol. 1 of the original edition of Letters from Abroad (2011) with transcriptions of the letters from vol. 3 of the series (2013), together with new material that has hitherto been unpublished. Thus, in a single volume, she sets the context of the life and times of the traveller and his family against the background of this voluminous corpus of fascinating correspondence, which can be read in conjunction with Pococke's own published account of his travels, A Description of the East and Some Other Countries (1743-45)"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Biographical Accounts of the Pococke and Milles Families; title: Itinerary of the Eastern Voyage; title: Letters from Egypt; title: Accounts from Egypt; title: Letters from the Holy Land, Lebanon and Syria; title: Accounts from the Holy Land, Lebanon and Syria; title: Letters from the Second Tour of Egypt, and from Turkey, Asia Minor and Greece; title: Accounts from Cyprus and from the Second Tour of Egypt; title: Conclusion.