Ambrosio Bembo 
The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo [PDF ebook] 

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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 extrao...

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Table of Content

List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue
1. Venice to Aleppo
2. From Aleppo to Basra
3. Basra, the Gulf, and the Arabian Sea
4. Iran
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About the author

Anthony Welch is Professor in the Department of History in Art at the University of Victoria. He is author of Shah ‘Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan, Arts of the Islam...

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 470 ● ISBN 9780520940130 ● File size 12.3 MB ● Editor Anthony Welch ● Publisher University of California Press ● Published 2007 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5511428 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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