The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (649 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520249399 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 470 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Presented here with the original illustrations and with a rich introduction and annotations, this lively and important historical document is at last available to scholars, students, and armchair travelers alike.. It opens an extraordinary perspective on the Near East and India at a time when few Europeans traveled to these lands. In 1671, Ambrosio Bembo, a young nobleman bored with everyday life in Venice, decided to broaden his knowledge of the world through travel. 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. Keenly observed and engagingly written, Bembo's vivid account is filled with a high sense of adventure and curiosity and provides intriguing descriptions of people, landscapes, food, fashion, architecture, customs, cities, commerce, and more. That August he set off on a remarkable, occasionally hazardous, four-year voyage to Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and
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
Bembo's Travel Bug Robert Lebling Ambrosio Bembo was a young nobleman from Venice who traveled to the Middle East and India in the late 17th century. He wrote a detailed account of his travels, and had the work illustrated with 52 line drawings by French artist G.J. Grélot, who traveled with him on the return trip.Bembo's book was never published in his . Translations of time, distance, and money are confusing. Time Arrow Clara Bargellini does not provide clarity when it comes to time, distance, or money. Moreover, many footnotes correcting Ambrosio Bembo's alleged spelling errors is distracting. The glossary should provide a monetary conversion chart so an ordinary reader can ascertain approximate values in terms of dollars or euros as of the b. Larry N. Stout said A history-lover's goldmine. 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 tha