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Discoveries and Travels in Asia

From Herodotus to Burckhardt

Hugh Murray (Autor)

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1648 Seiten

2018
I.B. Tauris
978-1-78453-516-2 (ISBN)

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A truly comprehensive account of expeditions and embassies to Asia from the earliest times to the first decades of the nineteenth century. An overview of Greek and Arab exploration of Asia is followed by coverage of embassies, missions and voyages to Asia generally. Organised chronologically they include travels made by Carpini, Ascelin, Ricold de Monte Crucis, Schildtberger, Albuquerque, Horace de la Penna, Hanway, Andrada, amongst others. Major geographical regions – Northern Asia, Western Asia, Eastern Asia, and India – are then dealt with separately and accounts include not only the better known expeditions but also ones whose details are not to be found elsewhere. Combining factual detail with an engaging text, and with a new Introduction by leading scholar of Asia, Professor Morris Rossabi, the 3-volume set will appeal to libraries, institutions, scholars and travel aficionados alike.

Morris Rossabi, Professor of Inner Asian History, Columbia University, Distinguished Professor of History, Queens College, City University of New York. A leading expert on Asia, his books include Kublai Khan: His Life and Times (2009); The Mongols and Global History (2010), The Mongols: A Short Introduction (2012); and A History of China (2013). Hugh Murray (1779–1846) was a Scottish geographer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London. His works include Encyclopaedia of Geography, and Discoveries and Travels in Asia. He also contributed to key geographical works of the period.

Contents
VOLUME I
INTRODUCTION
1. Discoveries of the Ancients
Known and unknown Asia ● Herodotus ● Expedition of Alexander ● Voyage of Nearchus ● Seleucus ● Megasthenes ● Periplus of the Erythraean Sea ● Great caravan route through Asia
2. Discoveries of the Arabians
Rise of Mahommedan power ● Arabian geographers ● Their description of the countries upon the Oxus and Jaxartes ● India ● China ● The two Mohammedan travellers ● Benjamin of Tudela
BOOK I GENERAL TRAVELS THROUGH ASIA
1. Early European Embassies into Tartary
The Tartars ● Conquests of Zingis and his dynasty ● Embassies from the Pope ● Ascelin ● Carpini
2. Mission of Rubruquis
Occasion of this mission ● Visit to Sartach ● To Baatu ● To Mangu Khan ● Karrakorum ● Return
3. Marco Polo
Commercial travels ● Family of the Poli ● Marco ● Occasion of writing his narrative ● Its authenticity ● Persia ● Central Asia ● Return by way of India
4. Travels Immediately subsequent to Marco Polo
Oderic of Portenau ● Sir John Mandeville ● Ricold de Monte Crucis
5. Travels through Asia during the age of Timur
Clavijo ● Schildtberger ● Ambassadors of Shah Rokh
6. Voyages along the southern coasts of Asia
Mendez Pinto ● Sharpey ● Middleton ● Grantham ● Antonio Albuquerque
7. Travels across the Caspian to Persia and Bokhara
Plan for an English trade with the Caspian ● Jenkinson’s journey to Bokhara ● into Persia ● Edwards ● Burrough ● Travels of Cubero ● Beckewitz ● Bruce ● Elton ● Hanway
8. Travels overland to and from India
Tenreiro ● Bernardino ● Godhino ● Capper ● Campbell
9. Travels between India and China
Andrada ● Grucher ● Desideri ● Horace de la Penna
10. Travels through Central Asia and the Great Desert
Itinerary of Pegoletti ● Johnson ● Chesaud ● Goez ● Gerbillon ● Recent information by British embassies
11. View of geographical systems relative to Asia
Imperfect knowledge of the ancients ● Homer ● Herodotus ● Eratosthenes ● Position of Thinae ● Ptolemy ● The Seres and Sinae ● Palibothra ● The Arabians ● Crusades ● Tartary ● Karrakorum ● Portuguese navigators ● Early modern geographers ● The Russians ● Chinese missionaries ● Recent British missions
VOLUME II
BOOK II INDOSTAN
1. Voyage to Indostan prior to the passage of the Cape
Cosmas Indicopleustes ● Conti ● Sto. Stefano ● Abdoulrizack ● Barthema
2. Discovery of India by the Portuguese
Vasco di Gama ● Pedro Alvarez Cabral ● Juan de Nueva ● Second voyage of Gama ● Exploits of Albuquerque ● Extent of Portuguese empire ● Its decline
3. Proceedings of the Portuguese missionaries in India
Zeal of the Portuguese government ● Attempt to convert the natives of Goa ● Salsette ● Pesqueria ● Three missions to the Mogul ● Manrique
4. British embassies to the Great Mogul
Mildenhall ● Hawkins ● Roe
5. Miscellaneous travels through Indostan
Bruton ● Graaf ● Mandeslo ● Bernier ● Tavernier ● Hodges ● Danish mission at Tranquebar
6. Geographical and Statistical View of Indostan
Physical aspects of Indostan ● System of Agriculture ● Natural products ● Population
7. Religion and literature of Indostan
The supreme deity ● The Hindoo triad ● Inferior divinities ● Female deities ● Terrestrial gods ● Giants and Raksasas ● Animal and inanimate objects of worship ● A future life and transmigration of souls ● Temples ● Observances ● Religious suicide ● Boodhism ●The Vedas ● Paranas ● Mahabarat and Ramayana ● Amorous poetry ● History ● The abstract sciences ● Astronomy
8. General view of Hindoo society
Moral character ● Distinction of casts ● Mahrattas ● Pindarees ● Seiks ● Nairs ● Mahommetan population ● Syriac Christians ● Syriac Jews
9. British system in India
Foundation of the British Indian empire ● Native troops ● Civil government ● Employment of young men ● Commerce ● Missions and translations
BOOK III TRAVELS IN THE COUNTRIES BORDERING HINDOSTAN
1. Travels through the Himmaleh and to the sources of the Indian rivers
On the source of the Ganges ● Hardwicke’s journey to Serinagur ● Webb’s journey to the source of the Ganges ● Moorcroft ● Height of the Himmaleh Mountains ● Fraser
2. British embassies to Thibet
Bogle ● Turner
3. Accounts of Nepaul
Kirkpatrick ● Hamilton
4. Travels into the countries of West Asia
Forster ● Elphinstone ● Kingdom of Caubul ● Pottinger
VOLUME III
BOOK IV WESTERN ASIA
1. Persia- early travels
Zeno ● Barbaro ● Contarini ● Vicenze Alessandri ● Sherley ● Don Garcia de Sylva ● Herbert ● Olearius ● Chardin ● Bembo ● Fra Leandro
2. Persia – recent travels and present state
Malcolm ● Olivier ● Morier ● Present state of Persia ● Its antiquities
3. Pilgrimages to the Holy Land
Arculfus ● Willibald ● Bernard ● The Crusades ● Bouldesell ● Brocquiere ● Briedenbach ● Baumgarten ● Georgewitz ● Aldersey ● Sandys
4. Asiatic Turkey
Eldred ● Biddulph ● Pococke ● Chandler ● Wood ● Clarke ● Macdonal Kinneir ● Seetzen ● Burkhardt
5. Arabia
Niebuhr ● Valentia ● Seetzen Bahdia
BOOK V EASTERN ASIA
1. Countries between India and China
Pegu ● Caesar Frederick ● Gasparo Balbi ● Symes ● Siam ● Missions from France ● Cochin China ● Borri ● Barrow
2. China – Portuguese and Spanish discoveries
First discovery ● The Andradas ● Thome Pires ● Venetian report ● Notices from Mexico ● The Augustines ● The Franciscans ● Ignatius ● Ricio ● Navarete ● Expulsion of the missionaries
3. China – embassies and missions
The Dutch ● Nieuhoff ● The French ● Lecomte & c. ● Their favour at court ● Expulsion ● Russian embassies ● Isbrand Ides ● Lange and Bell
4. British embassies
Lord Macartney ● Lord Amherst ● Captain Hall ● Present state
5. Japan
Portuguese missionaries ● Kaempfer ● Thunberg ● Krusenstern ● Golownin
BOOK VI NORTHERN ASIA
1. The territory of Caucasus
General remarks ● Engelmann ● Pallas, Klaproth, Guldenstedt & c. ● The Circassians
2. Siberia – early discoveries
First discovery and conquest by the Russians ● Bell
3. Siberia – recent travels
Messerschmidt ● Gmelin ● Pallas ● Sievers ● Schangin

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.7.2022
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	1-78453-516-8 / 1784535168
ISBN-13	978-1-78453-516-2 / 9781784535162
Zustand	Neuware