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| #2272947 in Books | 2007-09-19 | 2007-09-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.80 x1.17 x5.90l,1.40 | File type: PDF | 470 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A history-lover's goldmine|By Larry N. Stout|Bembo's seventeenth-century journal of his travels is good reading in itself (here in translation), but it is the abundant annotations of learned editor Anthony Welch that gives this book its great value. This is both engaging travelogue and a virtual course in Medieval history and cultures from Italy to India. Did you know that som|From the Inside Flap|
"This work makes an important contribution. . . . It also introduces a fascinating young observer from Venice full of humor and curiosity about everything."—Oleg Grabar, author of The Formation of Islamic Art
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 ...
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