India Extra Gangem ['India beyond the Ganges']

'India Extra Gangem' ['India beyond the Ganges']. A version of this volume published posthumously under the direction of Pennant's son David, as part of the 'Outlines of the Globe, Vol. III: The View of Inda Extra Gangem, China, and Japan' (London, 1800).

Itinerary roughly follows the coast eastwards from 'Chittigong' [Chattogram] in modern Bangladesh to the 'Bay of Tonquin' [Vịnh Bắc Bộ / Gulf of Tonkin] and the 'City of Cachao' [Hà Nội / Hanoi] in modern Vietnam.

According to Pennant's correspondence with Richard Bull, this volume was begun around December 1791: see 'Curious Travellers Editions' [https://editions.curioustravellers.ac.uk/], Item ID 1142.

The section from pp. 107–140 comprises an English translation of the Arriani Periplus Maris Erythræi, i.e. the Greek Periplus of the Erythraean Sea attributed to Arrian. The translation is by the Rev. Robert Williams Curate of Whiteford [Whitford], and dated 1792.

Two indexes and an itinerary in rear of volume.

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ID:	P/16/16
Collection:	Charts and maps
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Thomas Pennant
Date made:	1773; 1773-1792 1787-01-01 - 1792-12-31 1787-1792 1790 1791 1792
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	1 volume
Parts:	'Outlines of the Globe' or 'Imaginary World Tour' and related items - manuscript tours, natural history, and illustrations authored and compiled by Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), naturalist, traveller, and writer (Manuscript) Northern Regions. Including England: Scotland: Iceland: Holland: Denmark. (Manuscript) (P/16/1) Northern Regions, Vol II: Comprising of Norway: Sweden: Spitsbergen: Russia. (Manuscript) (P/16/2) Northern Regions, Vol. III: Asiatic Russia (Manuscript) (P/16/3) 'Northern Regions, Vol. IIII: Nova Zemjla, Siberia, Kamtschatka. (Manuscript) (P/16/4) France. 'From Calais to...Bretagne' [Normandy and Brittany] (Manuscript) (P/16/6) France. 'From Le Pais D'Aunis…to the borders of Spain' (Manuscript) (P/16/7) Spain and Portugal. (Manuscript) (P/16/8) Coasts of Southern Spain and Southern France (Manuscript) (P/16/9) Northern Africa (Manuscript) (P/16/10) West Africa ['Nigritian Africa']. (Manuscript) (P/16/11) Southern and Eastern Africa ['Æthiopian Africa'] (Manuscript) (P/16/12) Arabia and Persia (Manuscript) (P/16/13) Western Hindostan. (Manuscript) (P/16/14) Eastern Hindostan. (Manuscript) (P/16/15) India Extra Gangem ['India beyond the Ganges'] (Manuscript) (P/16/16) The Empires of China and Japan (Manuscript) (P/16/17) Malayan Islands and New Holland. (Manuscript) (P/16/18) Spicy Islands (Manuscript) (P/16/19) London to Dover (Manuscript) (P/16/20) Tour in Part of the Mercian and Northumbrian Kingdoms; from Downing to Alston Moor (Manuscript) (P/16/22) Dover to the Isle of Wight. (Manuscript) (P/16/23) Introduction To the Arctic Zoology with additional illustrations (Manuscript) (P/16/24) Papers extracted from the 'Outlines of the Globe' volumes. (Manuscript) (P/16/25)

India Extra Gangem ['India beyond the Ganges']

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