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The Book of Travels - Two-Volume Set (Hardcover)
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The Book of Travels - Two-Volume Set (Hardcover)
Series: Library of Arabic Literature
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The adventures of the man who created Aladdin The Book of Travels
is Ḥanna Diyāb’s remarkable first-person account of his
travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of
Versailles and back again, which forever linked him to one of the
most popular pieces of world literature, the Thousand and One
Nights. Diyāb, a Maronite Christian, served as a guide and
interpreter for the French naturalist and antiquarian Paul Lucas.
Between 1706 and 1716, Diyāb and Lucas traveled through Syria,
Cyprus, Egypt, Tripolitania, Tunis, Italy, and France. In Paris,
Ḥanna Diyāb met Antoine Galland, who added to his wildly popular
translation of The Thousand and One Nights several tales related by
Diyāb, including “Aladdin” and “Ali Baba and the Forty
Thieves.” When Lucas failed to make good on his promise of a
position for Diyāb at Louis XIV’s Royal Library, Diyāb returned
to Aleppo. In his old age, he wrote this engaging account of his
youthful adventures, from capture by pirates in the Mediterranean
to quack medicine and near-death experiences. Translated into
English for the first time, The Book of Travels introduces readers
to the young Syrian responsible for some of the most beloved
stories from The Thousand and One Nights. A bilingual
Arabic-English edition.
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