Travels and journal through part of Asia during about four years undertaken by me, Ambrosio Bembo, Venetian noble
By: translated from the Italian by Clara Bargellini ; edited and annotated and with an introduction by Anthony Welch.
Contributors: Bargellini, Clara.; Welch, Anthony.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9780520249387; 9780520249394
Subjects: Middle East -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; Goa, Daman and Diu (India) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.; Early works to 1800
Work titles: Viaggio e geornale per parte dell'Asia di quattro anni incirca fatto de me Ambrosio Bembo Nobile Veneto (1671-1675).
Description: "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 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. Presented here with the original illustrations and with a rich introduction and annotations, this lively and important historical document is at last available to scholars, students, and armchair travelers alike."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.