The Voyages & Travels of the Ambassadors from the Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia
Author: Adam Olearius
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Published: 1662
Total Pages: 796
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Author: Adam Olearius
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Published: 1662
Total Pages: 796
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kathryn Babayan
Publisher: Harvard CMES
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780932885289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on idealists and visionaries who believed that Justice could reign in our world, this book explores the desire to experience utopia on earth. Reluctant to await another existence, individuals with ghuluww, or exaggeration, emerged at the advent of Islam, expecting to attain the apocalyptic horizon of Truth.
Author: John Oliver Wardrop
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-06-03
Total Pages: 151
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOliver Wardrop in the book "The Kingdom of Georgia: Notes of travel in a land of women, wine, and song" discusses the adventures of an adventurer in the late 19th century. This book consists of the travelogue, history of Georgia, and a multi-language bibliography of related material on the Kingdom. A historical book for young and old interested in the history of Georgia.
Author: Kenneth Parker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-28
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1135637474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarly Modern Tales of Orient is the first volume to collect together these travellers' tales and make them available to today's students and scholars. By introducing a fascinating array of accounts (of exploration, diplomatic, and commercial ventures), Kenneth Parker challenges widely-held assumptions about Early Modern encounters in the Orient. The documents assembled in Early Modern Tales of Orient have extraordinary resonance for us today. Many of the discourses which in part, emerged from those early encounters - such as Islamophobia, English Nationalism, and the Catholic/Protestant divide - are still active in contemporary society. This volume sheds a unique light on the development of a very English interest in 'the exotic'.
Author: John Scheckter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-09
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1317026888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA short fiction of shipwreck and discovery written by the politician Henry Neville (1620-1694), The Isle of Pines is only beginning to draw critical attention, and until now no scholarly edition of the work has appeared. In the first full-length study of The Isle of Pines, supported by the first fully critical edition, John Scheckter discloses how Neville's work offers a critique of scientific discourse, enacts complicated engagements of race and gender, and interrogates the methods and consequences of European exploration. The volume offers a new critical model for applying post-colonial and postmodern examination strategies to an early modern work. Scheckter argues that the structure and publication history of the fiction, with its separate, unreliable narrators, along with its several topics-shipwreck survival, the founding of a new society, the initial phases of European colonization-are imbued with the sense of uncertainty that permeated the era.
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). Library
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Published: 1895
Total Pages: 852
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Luther S. Luedtke
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1989-09-22
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780253336132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume argues that by focusing on British and American backgrounds, readers have underestimated the impact of Asia and "the East" on American novelist and short story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne's (1804-1864) writing. The central force in Hawthorne's intellectual development was New England Puritanism. It fascinated even when it sometimes repelled him. It exercised a pull on his imagination which a lifetime of varied experience did not loosen. The author recreates Hawthorne's heritage and examine his readings in material dealing with the East; he examines three of Hawthorne's "early tales" that were all written before 1830; and he looks at Hawthorne's "The Story Teller", the two-volume book of sketches and tales Hawthorne unsuccessfully tried to publish in 1834 and issued piecemeal thereafter in periodicals as annuals. The author also evaluates the role of the Eastern world in Hawthorne's view of Romance and studies some of Hawthorne's "remarkable" heroines -- Beatrice Rapaccini, Hester, Zenobia, and Miriam in particular. The author maintains that the Puritan element in Hawthorne's ancestry has been overstressed and that insufficient attention has been paid to the equally important travel-adventure-exploration aspect of Hawthorne's heritage and craft.
Author: Scott Levi
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2016-01-15
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9351189163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCaravans tells the fascinating story of countless Punjabi Khatri merchants who built great business empires through their ingenuity and spirit of adventure. Operating during the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, these merchants risked everything and travelled across Afghanistan, Central Asia, Iran and Russia. They used sophisticated techniques to convert a modest amount of merchandise into vast portfolios for trade and moneylending ventures. Caravans challenges the belief that the rising tide of European trade in the Indian Ocean usurped the overland ‘Silk Road’ trade, and demonstrates how thousands of Punjabis created a booming market in Central Asia at precisely this historical moment.
Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial library
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 568
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 570
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