On the Wonders of Land and Sea: Persianate Travel Writing (Ilex Series) (Hellenic Studies - Ilex (HUP))

by Daniel Majchrowicz (Author), Mana Kia (Author), Sunil Sharma (Author), Omar Khalidi (Author), Roberta Micallef (Author)

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  2013

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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.