Journal of a Tour in Asia Minor Leake Paperback Cambridge University Press
Journal of a Tour in Asia MinorWith Comparative Remarks on the Ancient and Modern Geography of That Country\nAuthor(s): William Martin Leake\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108020312, 978-1108020312\nSynopsis\nWilliam Martin Leake [tel] was a British military officer and classical scholar specialising in reconstructing the topography of ancient cities. He was a founding member of the Royal Geographical Society and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1815. After his retirement in 1815 he devoted the rest of his life to topographical and classical studies. This volume, first published in 1824, contains Leake's descriptions and reconstruction of the classical topography in a region of modern Turkey reaching from the Gulf of Izmit to the Mediterranean. Using information gained during his travels in the region between 1799 and 1800 together with ancient accounts of the area, Leake correla.
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