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The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo
Ambrosio Bembo
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Description for The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo
Paperback. In 1671, Ambrosio Bembo, a young nobleman bored with everyday life in Venice, decided to broaden his knowledge of the world through travel. Filled with adventure and curiosity, this book provides descriptions of people, landscapes, food, fashion, architecture, customs, cities, and commerce. It includes illustrations and annotations. Illustrator(s): Grelot, G.J. Editor(s): Welch, Anthony. Translator(s): Bargellini, Clara. Num Pages: 470 pages, 53 line illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 34. Weight in Grams: 904.
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 extraordinary perspective on the Near East and India at a time when few Europeans traveled to these lands. Keenly observed and ... Read more
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 extraordinary perspective on the Near East and India at a time when few Europeans traveled to these lands. Keenly observed and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
470
Condition
New
Number of Pages
470
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520249394
SKU
V9780520249394
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About Ambrosio Bembo
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 Islamic Book (with S.C. Welch), Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World, and Artists for the Shah: Late Sixteenth Century Painting at the Imperial Court of Iran, among other ... Read more
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