Highlands of Asiatic Turkey.
Author:
PERCY, (Henry Algernon George).
Year:
1901
Edition:
1st
Publisher:
Edward Arnold
Summary:
x-338, (2pp) adverts, frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 8 plates and 31 photographic illustrations. Publishers dark red cloth some even fading to the spine. A very good copy Percy a politician and traveller, his tour in Turkey was undertaken in 1899 with his cousin, Mr. Algernon Heber Percy, through Asia Minor and up the course of the southern source of the Euphrates to Bitlis and his Nestorian friends of Hakkiari. Thence he went on into the Alps of Jelu Dagh, traversing a little-known part of Kurdistan near the Turco-Persian border, and passed by Neri to Altin Keupri, whence he descended the Lesser Zab and Tigris on a raft to Baghdad. On his way out he had been received by Sultan Abdul Hamid. The book was inspired by his old sympathy for Turks, but also by a deepened sense of the evils of Hamidism, whose downfall he foresaw.
Ref:
24471
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