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Book Title:Turkey In Europe
Author:James Baker
Publisher:Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London, 3rd Edition
Year:1877
Recased red cloth 8vo with gilt and black embossed lettering with design on spine and front board with gilt and black device of crescent and star at bottom of spine and top of front board, with line of Turkish in Arabic script in gilt at bottom of front board, [xv], 560pp with a large, coloured, folding frontispiece map (facsimile), and one other large, coloured, folding map (original), book repairer's note on ffep, attractive black paste-downs, thumb-sized part of margin of p377 torn away without loss of text. In all, a well-restored example of this important book.
The book is a detailed account of Baker's travels through the European lands of the Turkish Empire. In 1884, these were extensive, comprising most of the Balkans, including Bulgaria and Romania.
 
Contents:
  1. The Voyage Out
  2. The Bulgarians
  3. The Bosphorus And Black Sea
  4. Ottoman-Greek Subjects "En Voyage"
  5. From Burgas To Vanboli
  6. The Turks
  7. Turkish Government
  8. The Fall Of The Byzantine Empire
  9. Modern Turkish History
  10. En Route Again
  11. Across The Balkan
  12. Ottoman Slave
  13. Turkey's Army And Navy
  14. Turkey As A Military Power
  15. From Troyan To Samakov
  16. The Albanians
  17. From Rilo To Salonika
  18. The Macedonian Planes
  19. A Second Visit To Turkey
  20. Taxation, etc
  21. Agriculture
  22. Turkey As A Field For Emigration
  23. The Crimean Tartars
Appendices:
  1. Robert College, Constantinaople - Syllabus
  2. Bulgarian Church
  3. Population
  4. Turkish Administration
  5. Education
  6. Finance
  7. Rights Of Foreigners To Hold Real Property
  8. Sheep-farming
James Baker was born in London, England, on January 6, 1830. He was educated at the Collegiate School, Gloucester, by private tutor and attended Cambridge where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1861 and a Master of Arts in 1864. In December 1855, Baker married Sarah Louise White and they had a son, Valentine Hyde Baker.
 
He entered the Indian Navy in 1865 to survey the Arabian coast and was active, as first officer of the schooner Matria, in the campaigns to suppress the slave trade. Later he joined the British Army (Royal Horse Guards Blue) and fought in the Crimea with the Eighth Hussars. He retired from the army as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1875. He traveled extensively and wrote the book Turkey in Europe.
 
He gained business experience as the private secretary of the Duke of Westminster, one of the most important landlords in London, and he was a member of the Athenaeum Club. This club, founded in 1824, had a membership based in the English literary, scientific and artistic circles.
 
In 1884, he went to Canada, with his wife and son, and began a ranch near Cranbrook, in British Columbia. Here he profited in mining and railway development and, in 1888, entered politics. Baker was elected to the provincial legislative assembly as Member for East Kootenay until his retirement in 1998. In 1900, Baker then 70 years old, returned to England and retirement. He died on July 31, 1906 at Inglewood, Parkston, Dorset, England, at age 76.
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