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Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the Seventeenth Century, Paperback / softback Book

Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the Seventeenth Century Paperback / softback

Part of the Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the Seventeenth Century 2 Volume Set series

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This two-volume English translation of part of a longer travel narrative by the Ottoman aristocrat Evliya Çelebi (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. Çelebi 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, 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.

Volume 1 includes a short biography of Çelebi and accounts of the history and architecture of his native city.

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