A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem: At Easter, A.D. 1697 - Softcover

Maundrell, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1859642187 ISBN 13: 9781859642184

Publisher: Garnet Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

Intended initially to be simply a diary, Maundrell received such interest from those he showed it to that he eventually decided to prepare it for publication. Although numerous other books had been published by other European travellers to the region, Maundrell’s was unusual in that it was packed with precise, factual information about the antiquities of the Middle East, rather than simply relating personal adventures or tales of the ‘exotic Orient’.

The present volume, reprinted from the sixth edition (1740), which also includes an account of the author’s trip to Mesopotamia, now makes Maundrell’s observations accessible to modern readers.

Travelling across Syria to Latakia, down the Syrian and Lebanese coasts and inland to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, and then visiting such places as Damascus, Baalbek and Tripoli on the return trip to Aleppo, Maundrell’s meticulous descriptions of castles, mosques, churches, fortresses and other archaeological sites of note, are sure to be of great interest to all those fascinated by the history of this unique part of the world.

About this title

About the Author:

Henry Maundrell was born in 1665 and attended Exeter College, Oxford in 1682. In 1695, he was elected to the Chaplaincy at the English Levant Company’s office in Aleppo, Syria. Plagued by ill health for much of his life, Maundrell died in 1701, shortly before publication of the first edition of A Journey From Aleppo to Jerusalem At Easter A.D. 1697.

About this edition

• Publisher: Garnet Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1859642187
• ISBN 13: 9781859642184
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 184