In 1784 Samuel Evers anonymously published an account of his travels: A journal kept on a journey from Bassora to Bagdad, over the little desert to Aleppo, Cyprus, Rhodes, Zante, Corfu, and Otrante, in the year 1779, by a gentleman, late an officer in the service of the Honourable East-India Company (Horsham, 1784). See: Mohamad Ali Hachicho, "English Travel Books about the Arab near East in the Eighteenth Century," in Die Welt des Islams, New Series, vol. 9 (1964), p. 69-70.
Subject Terms:
Evers, Samuel. | East India Company -- Officials and employees. | Clothing and dress -- Great Britain. | Clothing and dress -- Turkey. | British -- Middle East -- History -- 18th century. | Middle East -- Description and travel -- 18th century.