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Title: The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo
Condition: New
Author: Ambrosio Bembo
Illustrator: G.J. Grélot
Translator: Clara Bargellini
Contributor: Anthony Welch (Edited by), Clara Bargellini (Translated by), G.J. Grélot (Illustrated by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0520249399
EAN: 9780520249394
ISBN: 9780520249394
Publisher: University of California Press
Genre: History
Release Date: 19/09/2007
Description: In 1671, Ambrosio Bembo, a young nobleman bored with everyday life in Venice, decided to broaden his knowledge of the world through travel. That August he set off on a remarkable, occasionally hazardous, four-year voyage to Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and the Portuguese colonies of western India. His journal, now translated into English for the first time, is the most important new European travel account of western Asia to be published in the past hundred years. It opens an extraordinary perspective on the Near East and India at a time when few Europeans traveled to these lands. Keenly observed and engagingly written, Bembo's vivid account is filled with a high sense of adventure and curiosity and provides intriguing descriptions of people, landscapes, food, fashion, architecture, customs, cities, commerce, and more. Presented here with the original illustrations and with a rich introduction and annotations, this lively and important historical document is at last available to scholars, students, and armchair travelers alike.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Width: 28mm
Item Weight: 635g
Release Year: 2007

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