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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 July 2011
      24 June 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511710087
      9781108014939
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511710087
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.35kg, 276 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, South Asian History, Geography, Historical Geography, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, European History: General Interest, History
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, South Asian History, Geography, Historical Geography, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, European History: General Interest, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series
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    The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. A member of a noble Roman family, Pietro della Valle began travelling in 1614 at the suggestion of a doctor, as an alternative to suicide after a failed love affair. The letters describing his travels in Turkey, Persia and India were addressed to this advisor. This 1664 English translation of della Valle's letters from India, republished by the Hakluyt Society in 1892, contains fascinating ethnographic details, particularly on religious beliefs, and is an important source for the history of the Keladi region of South India.

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