A Year Among The Circassians Volume 2
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Author | : John Augustus Longworth |
Publisher | : Theclassics.Us |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781230365619 |
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ...No sooner were they aware of them than their cavalry dashed at full gallop along the shore to 176 DIFFERENCES WITH THE COUNCIL. overtake the steamer. There was for some time, I was told, a well-contested race between them. Steam, however, with the start it had obtained, outstripped on this occasion the Abbasian courser. The Russians succeeded in landing their men and setting fire to the ship. The Circassians had only the poor satisfaction of killing twenty of them in their retreat. The differences existing between Nadir and the council were not confined to the subject of his powder. Having made up their minds that he must be an English ambassador, they would listen to no disclaimer he made to the contrary. His obstinacy on this point only served to irritate them, and they ended by telling him in plain terms, that if not an English ambassador, he must be a Russian spy. In this disagreeable dilemma I found him when I arrived at Ouwya, and we immediately laid our heads together to find out what was best to be done under it. We were assisted in our deliberations by Meh-met, who came the day after his brother, Ali Bey, who, if inferior to him in intelligence, surpassed him, as he did every other mortal I have met, in bulk and stature. Also among those who, under existing circumstances, were necessarily admitted to Nadir's confidence, were the individuals of his own suite--a rather motley train, HADJI PAULO. 177 picked up promiscuously in his travels. There was, in the first place, his dragoman, a Tartar or Polish renegade--a mongrel, or cross of the European and Asiatic, a sort of nondescript not uncommon in the Levant. He had served as interpreter to some of our most celebrated orientalists, but had chiefly spent his time in rambling all over...
Author | : John Augustus Longworth |
Publisher | : Sagwan Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2015-08-21 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781296906429 |
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Author | : John Augustus Longworth |
Publisher | : Nabu Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2014-01-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781294536154 |
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Author | : J. A. Longworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2016-06-22 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781332618750 |
Excerpt from A Year Among the Circassians, Vol. 2 of 2 Our unpleasant position - Suspicious of treachery - Arrival of a Russian corvette - Ambuscade - Russian plot against na. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : J. A. Longworth |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2015-07-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781332039791 |
Excerpt from A Year Among the Circassians, Vol. 1 of 2 The reader will learn, in the course of this narrative, the reasons which induced the writer to take a voyage to Circassia. Warmly sympathizing with the patriotic mountaineers in their struggle against their oppressors, he was himself, during his twelvemonth's residence among them, too actively engaged and too deeply absorbed in it to find leisure for literary composition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : J. A. Longworth |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2024-08-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368742965 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
Author | : J. A. Longworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1840 |
Genre | : Circassia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : J. A. Longworth |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2024-08-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368742949 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
Author | : J. A. Longworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1840 |
Genre | : Circassia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Battersea (London, England). Public Libraries and Museums Commissioners. Lavender Hill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Library catalogs |
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