02843cam a22003133u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000440012624500270017026400510019730000470024833600260029533700260032133800360034750000310038350801970041452017260061153400570233765300370239485600550243185600430248677918UtSlPG20260610134815.0mcr n260607r20261879utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a01000385  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aDS1 aDavis, E. J.q(Edwin John),d1827?-190110aLife in Asiatic Turkey 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-02-12  aWebRover, Tim Lindell, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  a"Life in Asiatic Turkey" by E. J. Davis is a travel narrative written in the late 19th century. It chronicles an English clergyman’s overland journey through Cilicia, Isauria, Lycaonia, Cappadocia, and the Syrian coast, blending topographical detail, antiquarian notes, and sharp observations on local society, health, trade, and Ottoman provincial rule.

The opening of the work sets out the author’s purpose: to describe little-visited Northern Syria and Karamania, explain why travellers avoid them (danger, disease, hardship), and portray the Turkish people sympathetically while condemning corrupt administration. He then embarks by steamer from Alexandria, touching at Port Said, Jaffa, Acre, Sidon, Beyrout, Tripoli, and Alexandretta, noting harbours, the scent of orange groves, Crusader and Arab remains, and the malarial setting of Alexandretta, where he also records graves—among them a murdered American missionary—and old British epitaphs. Reaching Mersina, he sketches its swift growth since wartime grain booms, its unhealthy summers, mixed population, and nearby watch-mounds; a rain day yields candid talk with the British vice-consul about summer retreats in the Taurus, official corruption, blocked irrigation schemes, and famine relief abuses. He visits the ruined port and long colonnade of Pompeiopolis; surveys Mersina’s Greek schools and hospital; rides the province’s lone road to Tarsus; explores its necropolis hill, bazaars, and churches; describes the massive “Dunuk Tash” (ascribed to Sardanapalus), the Cydnus falls and altered river course, and the well linked by tradition to St. Paul—before setting out toward Asaab-el-Kef. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cLondon: Edward Stanford, 1879  aTurkey -- Description and travel4 uhttps://archive.org/details/lifeinasiatictur00davi40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77918