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  3. Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the Seventeenth Century
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
February 2013
Print publication year:
2012
First published in:
1850
Online ISBN:
9781139152013
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139152013
Subjects:
Area Studies, African Studies, 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 Evilya 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 2 includes Çelebi's eye-witness account of the siege and conquest of Canea (Khania) in Crete in 1645.

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