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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 August 2013
      21 February 2013
      ISBN:
      9781139344098
      9781108052016
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139344098
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.34kg, 260 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Middle East History
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
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    Subjects:
    Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Middle East History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
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    Of Czech ancestry, Albert Henry Wratislaw (1821–92) was educated at Rugby and Cambridge, and later became a prominent English public-school headmaster. At Cambridge he became interested in the literature and history of Bohemia and in 1849 he travelled there for the first time, quickly becoming proficient in the language. Upon his return home he began a lifetime of immersion in Czech literature. Published in 1862, this book was the first translation into English of a major Czech prose work. It is the vivid true story of a Bohemian nobleman's journey to, imprisonment in, and return from Constantinople in the late sixteenth century. Wratislaw's translation and brief introduction to Bohemian history proved popular and helped bring Czech literature and history to a wider audience.

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