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Turkey and Its Destiny

Turkey and Its Destiny, by Charles MacFarlane (London, 1850). The download includes volumes one and two of this two-volume set, in 1247 searchable and bookmarked pdf pages. The book is subtitled The Result of Journeys Made in 1847 and 1848 to Examine into the State of that Country. Charles MacFarlane (1799–1858) was a Scottish writer of historical and fictional works. He travelled to Turkey in 1827 and lived in Constantinople for a year. In 1847-1848 he returned to Asia Minor for another year of travel. MacFarlane has positive and negative things to say about most of the major groups in Asia Minor: ethnic, linguistic, confessional, the merchants, peasants, the young, the old, etc. His remarks are shrewd and often humorous. A valuable source for the Ottoman Empire in the mid-19th century. Books digitized by Google and compiled by Robert Bedrosian.

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