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annotations, this lively and important historical document is at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.
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