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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 November 2015
    26 January 2012
    ISBN:
    9781139152006
    9781108041782
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139152006
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    Dimensions:
    (297 x 210 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    1.13kg, 476 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Social and Cultural Anthropology, Geography, Historical Geography, European History after 1450
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe
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    Subjects:
    Social and Cultural Anthropology, Geography, Historical Geography, European History after 1450
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe
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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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