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An Intrepid Scot - William Lithgow of Lanark's Travels in the Ottoman Lands, North Africa and Central Europe, 1609-21 (Hardcover, New Ed) Loot Price: R4,627
Discovery Miles 46 270
An Intrepid Scot - William Lithgow of Lanark's Travels in the Ottoman Lands, North Africa and Central Europe, 1609-21...

An Intrepid Scot - William Lithgow of Lanark's Travels in the Ottoman Lands, North Africa and Central Europe, 1609-21 (Hardcover, New Ed)

C. Edmund Bosworth

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'An Intrepid Scot' makes an important new contribution to the growing literature on the perceptions of the Islamic world and the 'Orient' in early modern Europe, at the same time as illuminating the attitudes of a Protestant from Northern Europe towards the Catholic South. In this book Edmund Bosworth looks at the life and career of William Lithgow, a tough and opinionated Scots Protestant, who had a seemingly insatiable Wanderlust and who managed to survive various misadventures and near-death experiences in the course of his travels. These took him through a dangerously Catholic Southern Europe to a dangerously Muslim Greece and Istanbul en route for his pilgrimage destination of the Holy Land; on another occasion he went through North Africa and returned circuitously via Central and Eastern Europe; but he was stopped in his tracks whilst endeavouring to reach the court of Prester John in Ethiopia, when he fell into the hands of the Spanish Inquisition and narrowly escaped a horrible death. Lithgow was one of several men of his time who journeyed eastwards, some as far as Persia and India, but unlike many others, he has not been the subject of a special study. Bosworth now places him within the context of the present interest in perceptions of the Islamic world and of the 'Orient' and 'Orientals' in early modern Europe. In addition to the entertainment of the travel narrative, the book shows how one Westerner of the time interpreted the alien East for his readers, and how the Ottoman Empire and its apparently unstoppable might both fascinated and struck fear into the hearts of those outside it.

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Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: June 2006
First published: 2006
Authors: C. Edmund Bosworth
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 218
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-5708-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing > General
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
Books > Travel > Travel writing > General
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LSN: 0-7546-5708-6
Barcode: 9780754657088

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