Hobart Pasha : Kessinger Publishing : 9781164674573 : 1164674579 : 10 Sep 2010 : Hobart Pasha: Blockade-Running, Slaver-Hunting, And War And Sport In Turkey (1915) is a memoir written by Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden, an English naval officer who served in the Ottoman Empire during the mid-19th century. The book chronicles Hobart-Hampden's experiences as a blockade-runner, slaver-hunter, and participant in various military campaigns and sporting events in Turkey. The memoir begins with Hobart-Hampden's arrival in the Ottoman Empire as a young naval officer in the 1850s. He quickly becomes involved in the lucrative business of blockade-running, using his knowledge of the local waters and his connections with Ottoman officials to smuggle goods past British and French naval blockades during the Crimean War. Hobart-Hampden also participates in the Ottoman Empire's efforts to suppress the African slave trade, serving as captain of a naval vessel tasked with intercepting slave ships off th