On the Wonders of Land and Sea Persianate Travel Writing |
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| Editor:
| Micallef, Roberta
Sharma, Sunil |
| Contribution by:
| Khalidi, Omar
Kia, Mana
Majchrowicz, Daniel
Sheffield, Daniel
Wide, Thomas |
| Series title: | Ilex Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-07334-0 |
| Publication Date: | May 2013 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.