Karamania: Or, A Brief Description of the South Coast of Asia-Minor and of the Remains of Antiquity (Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture) - Softcover

Beaufort, Francis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108067050 ISBN 13: 9781108067058

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2014

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Published in 1817 by naval officer and hydrographer Francis Beaufort (1774–1857), this work provided the first modern survey of the southern coast of Turkey, together with descriptions of its classical sites. An instant success with experts and laypeople, it shed much light on an underexplored region.

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Remembered for devising the measure of wind speed that bears his name, the naval officer and hydrographer Sir Francis Beaufort (1774–1857) also had a hand in the production of more than a thousand nautical charts over the course of his career. In 1810 he had been appointed to command the frigate Frederikssteen by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. His mission was to explore 'Karamania', a contemporary European term for the shores of southern Turkey. For two years Beaufort charted the coastline and investigated its classical ruins before his work was brought to an end in 1812 by a Turkish attack which left him wounded. Returning to England, Beaufort set about drawing up the charts of his survey and documenting his findings, publishing this work in 1817, complete with engraved maps and plates. Experts and laypeople received the book favourably, as it shed much light on an underexplored region.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1108067050
• ISBN 13: 9781108067058
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328