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Title Travellers in Ottoman lands : the botanical legacy / edited by Ines Aščerić-Todd, Sabina Knees, Janet Starkey and Paul Starkey
Published Oxford : ASTENE : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd., [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 379 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps
Series Archaeopress archaeology
Archaeopress archaeology.
Contents THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE -- 1. The Ottoman Empire: an introduction to its history and heritage / Ines Asceric-Todd -- THE OTTOMAN GARDEN -- 2. Presenting and re-presenting Ottoman imperial gardens in manuscript illustrations: the case of the Oxford Dilsuznamah, dated AH 860/AD 1455-1456, Edirne / Susan Scollay -- 3. Ottoman fruit cultivation as reflected in Evliya Celebi's Book of Travels / Priscilla Mary Ism -- 4. Gardens of Istanbul in Persian hajj travelogues / Gullu Yildiz -- 5. The public space of the Bakewell Ottoman Garden / Radha Dalal -- BOTANIST-TRAVELLERS -- 6. Dioscorides' legacy: a classical precursor to travellers in Ottoman lands / Alison Denham -- 7. Botanical explorations by Frederik Hasselquist (1749-1752) and Pehr Forsskal (1761-1763): Linne's apostles in the Holy Land / Tobias Morike -- 8. From Ottoman Aleppo to Edinburgh: the botanical legacies of Adam Freer MD and his colleagues / Janet Starkey -- 9. The botanist Carl Haussknecht (1838-1903) in the Ottoman Empire and Persia (1865 and 1866-1869): a biographical sketch and itinerary of his expeditions / Kristin Victor -- 10. In honour of Professor Asuman Baytop (1920-2015): a tribute -- On Georges Vincent Aznavour, the last Ottoman plant collector and his herbarium held in Robert College (Istanbul), Turkey / Necmi Aksoy -- 11. Violet Dickson, Umm Saud, the last grande dame of Arabia / Irene Linning -- BULBS AND CONIFERS -- 12. Bulbs of the Holy Land: diversity, conservation, and cultivation / Ori Fragman-Sapir -- 13. George Maw (1832-1912): his Crocus monograph, travels, and correspondents from the Ottoman Empire / Alison Rix -- 14. Decline of the conifers in former Ottoman lands / Sabina Knees -- 15. The cedars of Lebanon in literature and art / Paul Starkey -- ART AND BOTANY -- 16. Botanical art in Turkey from past to present / Gulnur Eksi -- 17. The interpretation of Ottoman garden culture through miniatures / Giirsan Ergil -- 18. Richly decorated textiles and Ottoman court dress / Jennifer Scarce -- 19. Taking ̀stalk' of Turkey red in Ottoman flora, fabric, and fibre / Lara Mehling -- 20. Roses, carnations, and ̀Prophet's eggs': Turkish needle lace flowers between decoration and non-verbal communication / Kathrin Muller
Summary This splendidly illustrated work focuses on the botanical legacy of many parts of the former Ottoman Empire - including present-day Turkey, the Levant, Egypt, the Balkans, and the Arabian Peninsula - as seen and described by travellers both from within and from outside the region
Notes Previously issued in print: 2018
Includes index
Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from first page of pdf
Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award - Nominee, 2020
Subject Botany -- Turkey -- History -- Congresses
Botany -- Middle East -- History -- Congresses
Botany -- Egypt -- History -- Congresses
Botany -- Balkan Peninsula -- History -- Congresses
Botany -- Arabian Peninsula -- History -- Congresses
Plants -- Middle East -- History -- Congresses
Travelers -- Middle East -- Congresses
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Botany
Plants
Travel
Travelers
SUBJECT Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 -- Congresses
Middle East -- Description and travel -- Congresses
Subject Arabian Peninsula
Balkan Peninsula
Egypt
Middle East
Turkey
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Aščerić-Todd, Ines, editor.
Knees, Sabina, editor.
Starkey, Janet, 1948- editor.
Starkey, Paul, 1947- editor.
Archaeopress, publisher.
ISBN 1784919160
9781784919160