An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Çelebi - Softcover

Çelebi, Evliya

 
9781906011581: An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Çelebi
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1906011583 ISBN 13: 9781906011581
Verlag: Eland Publishing, 2011

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Evliya Çelebi is the greatest travel writer of the Ottoman Empire. Born in Istanbul in 1611, he started travelling in 1640 and continued for over forty years, stopping eventually in Cairo where he died in about 1685. He collected his lively and eclectic observations into a ten-volume manuscript the Seyahatname, or Book of Travels. For the first time in English, this selection gives a taste of the breadth of Evliya's interests: from architecture to natural history, through religion, politics, linguistics, music, science and the supernatural. While he made over a thousand complete recitations of the Koran in his lifetime, he also wrote with curiosity about Christianity, about his own impotence, about the antics at a world convention of trapeze artists and the feats of a Kurdish sorcerer who conjured a horse from a log pile.

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Verlag
Eland Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1906011583
ISBN 13 
9781906011581
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
522
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