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NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS IN EUROPE, ASIA, AND AFRICA IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 2 VOLUME SET
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| By: |
Evliya Celebi, Joseph von Hammer (Trans) |
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Multiple copy pack |
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£64.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1108041809 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781108041805 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION |
| Pub. date: |
26 January, 2012 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe |
| Pages: |
724 |
| Translated from: |
Turkish, |
| Description: |
A two-volume translation, published in 1834, of a wide-ranging travel narrative by the Ottoman aristocrat Evliya Celebi (1611-c.1680). |
| Synopsis: |
This two-volume English translation of part of a longer travel narrative by the Ottoman aristocrat Evliya Celebi (1611-c.1680) was translated by the Austrian scholar Joseph von Hammer (1774-1856) and published in 1834 by the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, set up to make 'Eastern' texts more widely available in English. Celebi was highly educated, had served the Ottoman court both as a diplomat and as a soldier, and as he says, had in his travels 'seen the countries of eighteen monarchs and heard 147 different languages'. His lifetime encompassed the highest point of Ottoman expansion into Europe, when Adriatic and Greek trading ports were wrested from Venice and the Turks besieged Vienna, and his indefatigable curiosity about everything he saw makes this work a fascinating assemblage of topics varying from the fountains of Istanbul to a journey to Georgia. |
| Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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