|
Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing
|
Buy Now
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: R4,441
Discovery Miles 44 410
|
|
|
An Intrepid Scot - William Lithgow of Lanark's Travels in the Ottoman Lands, North Africa and Central Europe, 1609-21 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
'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.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
