Treatise on the Comparative Geography of Western Asia: Accompanied With An Atlas Of Maps: Volume 2 (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor) - Softcover

Rennell, James

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ISBN 10: 1108072119 ISBN 13: 9781108072113

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2014

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Published posthumously in 1831, this two-volume work by James Rennell, the father of historical geography, surveys an area from Egypt to the Danube and from the Aegean to the Caspian Sea. Volume 2 surveys the classical territories of Asia Minor, and considers the Roman road network of the area.

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James Rennell (1742–1830) could be claimed as the father of historical geography. After a long career at sea and in India, during which he had learned surveying and cartography, he returned to England, and entered the circle of Sir Joseph Banks, who encouraged him to widen the his interests to include the geography of the ancient world. This two-volume work was published posthumously in 1831: Rennell had been working on the topic for many years, and had published a part of his findings in 1814, as Observations on the Topography of the Plain of Troy, also reissued in this series. The area covered in the treatise is a wide one, from Egypt to the Danube and from the Aegean to the Caspian Sea. In Volume 2, Rennell surveys the Greek and Roman territories of Asia Minor, and considers in detail the Roman road network of the area.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1108072119
• ISBN 13: 9781108072113
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 434