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    Volume 2
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 February 2015
    13 November 2014
    ISBN:
    9781107444508
    9781108072113
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107444508
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.55kg, 434 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Ancient History, Classical Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Geography, Historical Geography, Middle East History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
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    Subjects:
    Ancient History, Classical Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Geography, Historical Geography, Middle East History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
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    James Rennell (1742–1830) could be claimed as the father of historical geography. After a long career at sea and in India, during which he had learned surveying and cartography, he returned to England, and entered the circle of Sir Joseph Banks, who encouraged him to widen the his interests to include the geography of the ancient world. This two-volume work was published posthumously in 1831: Rennell had been working on the topic for many years, and had published a part of his findings in 1814, as Observations on the Topography of the Plain of Troy, also reissued in this series. The area covered in the treatise is a wide one, from Egypt to the Danube and from the Aegean to the Caspian Sea. In Volume 2, Rennell surveys the Greek and Roman territories of Asia Minor, and considers in detail the Roman road network of the area.

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