First English translation of the diaries of John Castle's journey to the Kazakh steppe in 1736. Rich ethnographic writing offers insight into the political unrest of the Russian Empire, hidden practices such as exorcism, and the role of Islam in eighteenth-century Kazakhstan.
The vast and expanding Russian empire of the eighteenth century was inhabited by a great number of peoples. This book, part anthology part commentary, is the first of its kind to bring together British travellers accounts of the peoples and places of the lesser known but key parts of Russias frontiers: the Lower Volga, Azerbaijan, parts of Kazakhstan and Independent Tartary or Central Asia
This book contributes to the rediscovery of Beirut by inviting the visitor and reader to explore a city that is unique in the region for its multicultural heritage, where antiquity jostles with Ottoman and French colonial influence as well as with striking expressions of modernity.
Beatrice Teissier explores Britain’s travellers the eyes of visitors, consuls and other observers who travelled from the Black Sea coast to the Caucasus mountain chains, to Chechnya, Dagestan and even the Caspian.