An Ottoman Traveller : Selections from the Book of Travels by Evliya Çelebi

An Ottoman Traveller : Selections from the Book of Travels by Evliya Çelebi

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FörlagEland Publishing
ISBN9781780600253

Evliya Çelebi is the greatest travel writer of the Ottoman Empire. Born in Istanbul in 1611, he started travelling in 1640 and continued for over forty years, stopping eventually in Cairo where he died in about 1685. He collected his lively and eclectic observations into a ten-volume manuscript the