Indo-Persian travels in the age of discoveries, 1400-1800
Muzaffar Alam (Author), Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Author)
An important study of travel accounts in Persian, dealing with India, Iran and Central Asia between 1400 and 1800. This book can be read for a better understanding of the nature of early modern encounters, but also for the sheer pleasure of entering a new world.
Print Book, English, 2007
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2007
Early works to 1800
xvi, 399 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
9780521780414, 9780521129558, 0521780411, 0521129559
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Introduction : the travel-account from Beijing to the Bosphorus
From Timur to the Bahmanis : fifteenth-century views
Courtly encounters
An ocean of wonders
When hell is other people
A western mirror
The long road to Rum
On early modern travel