On the Wonders of Land and Sea: Persianate Travel Writing

On the Wonders of Land and Sea: Persianate Travel Writing group work Wydawca: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies Data wydania: 2013 ISBN: 9780674073340 Liczba stron: 198 Format: 230 x 159 x 11 Rodzaj oprawy: Paperback / softback Opis produktu: On the Wonders of Land and Sea is a comparative study of travel writers in the eastern Islamic world from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Situating texts in their socio-historical contexts, the essays study works by male and female Muslim and Parsi/Zoroastrian travelers in the Hijaz, Iraq, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and Europe.