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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      December 2014
      May 2014
      ISBN:
      9781107519022
      9781108075237
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107519022
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      (297 x 210 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.4kg, 528 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Middle East History
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
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    Subjects:
    Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Middle East History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
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    Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656–1708) was originally destined for the church, but his interest in botany led him to become professor of botany at the Jardin des plantes in Paris, and to travel all over Europe and beyond in search of interesting specimens. He was chiefly interested in the classification of plants, but is now best remembered for the accounts he wrote of voyages undertaken for the purpose of scientific discovery. This illustrated two-volume work, published posthumously in French in 1717 and translated into English the following year, recounts a journey begun in 1700, around the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea, visiting Crete and other Greek islands, Istanbul, Armenia and Georgia. Tournefort notes not only plants, but geographical features, antiquities, the people he encounters, and their way of life, agriculture and industry. Volume 2 continues the journey around the Black Sea and describes the voyage home.

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