On the Wonders of Land and Sea
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Author | : Roberta Micallef |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
ISBN-10 | : 0674073347 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780674073340 |
Rating | : 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis On the Wonders of Land and Sea by : Roberta Micallef
Book excerpt: 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.