Intro -- GEORGE STRACHAN OF THE MEARNS -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- one Heritage -- two Exile -- three The Humanist Scholar -- four To Constantinople -- five Aleppo -- six Mohammed Çelebi -- seven The Ḥusaynābādı ̄Scholiasts -- eight Strachan's Library -- nine The English East India Company -- ten 'Stracan our Infernall Phesition' -- eleven Among Friends -- twelve The Mission at Srinagar -- Appendix -- Archives -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Provides an up-to-date study of the life of George Strachan (1572 - 1635), early 17th century Scottish Humanist scholar, Orientalist and traveller
