Author: Sir John Chardin
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1616405147
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Sir John Chardin's Travels in Persia is an abridged translation of the original French edition, which describes in great detail the people, places, politics, governments, and culture John Chardin encountered during his many years of travel in the Near East. It was originally published in full in 1711 under the title Voyages de monsieur le chevalier Chardin en Perse, et autres lieux de l'Orient, or The Travels of Sir John Chardin in Persia and the Orient. It is considered an authority among academics; Persian scholar John Emerson said, "[Chardin's] information on Safavid Persia outranks that of all other Western writers in range, depth, accuracy, and judiciousness." The complete works have never been translated in English, though there are many editions. This volume contains the hard-to-find original 1720 translation, presented in two parts. SIR JOHN CHARDIN (1643-1713), also known as Jean Chardin, was a French jeweler and traveler who authored the ten-volume book The Travels of Sir John Chardin, one of the most well-regarded early scholarly works on the Near East and Persia by a Westerner. Chardin was trained to be a jeweler like his father, but instead set out with a fellow merchant for Persia and India in 1664 at the ripe age of 21. He spent most of his time traveling in Persia from 1664-1673, before finally settling in England to escape the French prosecution of Protestants in 1681. It was there that he published the first part of The Travels of Sir John Chardin in 1686, which was presented in full in Amsterdam in 1711, two years before his death.
Sir John Chardin's Travels in Persia
Author: Sir John Chardin
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1616405147
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Sir John Chardin's Travels in Persia is an abridged translation of the original French edition, which describes in great detail the people, places, politics, governments, and culture John Chardin encountered during his many years of travel in the Near East. It was originally published in full in 1711 under the title Voyages de monsieur le chevalier Chardin en Perse, et autres lieux de l'Orient, or The Travels of Sir John Chardin in Persia and the Orient. It is considered an authority among academics; Persian scholar John Emerson said, "[Chardin's] information on Safavid Persia outranks that of all other Western writers in range, depth, accuracy, and judiciousness." The complete works have never been translated in English, though there are many editions. This volume contains the hard-to-find original 1720 translation, presented in two parts. SIR JOHN CHARDIN (1643-1713), also known as Jean Chardin, was a French jeweler and traveler who authored the ten-volume book The Travels of Sir John Chardin, one of the most well-regarded early scholarly works on the Near East and Persia by a Westerner. Chardin was trained to be a jeweler like his father, but instead set out with a fellow merchant for Persia and India in 1664 at the ripe age of 21. He spent most of his time traveling in Persia from 1664-1673, before finally settling in England to escape the French prosecution of Protestants in 1681. It was there that he published the first part of The Travels of Sir John Chardin in 1686, which was presented in full in Amsterdam in 1711, two years before his death.
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1616405147
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Sir John Chardin's Travels in Persia is an abridged translation of the original French edition, which describes in great detail the people, places, politics, governments, and culture John Chardin encountered during his many years of travel in the Near East. It was originally published in full in 1711 under the title Voyages de monsieur le chevalier Chardin en Perse, et autres lieux de l'Orient, or The Travels of Sir John Chardin in Persia and the Orient. It is considered an authority among academics; Persian scholar John Emerson said, "[Chardin's] information on Safavid Persia outranks that of all other Western writers in range, depth, accuracy, and judiciousness." The complete works have never been translated in English, though there are many editions. This volume contains the hard-to-find original 1720 translation, presented in two parts. SIR JOHN CHARDIN (1643-1713), also known as Jean Chardin, was a French jeweler and traveler who authored the ten-volume book The Travels of Sir John Chardin, one of the most well-regarded early scholarly works on the Near East and Persia by a Westerner. Chardin was trained to be a jeweler like his father, but instead set out with a fellow merchant for Persia and India in 1664 at the ripe age of 21. He spent most of his time traveling in Persia from 1664-1673, before finally settling in England to escape the French prosecution of Protestants in 1681. It was there that he published the first part of The Travels of Sir John Chardin in 1686, which was presented in full in Amsterdam in 1711, two years before his death.
Travels in Persia, 1673-1677
Author: Sir John Chardin
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486120716
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Great travel classic offers a vivid portrait of 17th-century life at the court of the Shah: social customs, geography, soil and climate, trade, flora and fauna, and much more.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486120716
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Great travel classic offers a vivid portrait of 17th-century life at the court of the Shah: social customs, geography, soil and climate, trade, flora and fauna, and much more.
Sir John Chardin's Travels in Persia
Author: Sir John Chardin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iran
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iran
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
A Journey to Persia
Author: Ronald W. Ferrier
Publisher: New Age International
ISBN: 9781850435648
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
'Isfahan is half the world' was the proud boast of the seventeenth-century capital of Persia. One of the travellers attracted to Persia was Jean Chardin, a young French jeweller who spent most of his time in Isfahan. During this time, he became intimate with the city; he was invited into people's houses and entertained; he visited gardens and participated in hunts; his knowledge of court affairs was extensive, and he travelled many miles, visiting other towns and villages. Chardin's accounts and sketches are invaluable sources of information for all those interested in Middle East history, and they provide a vivid portrait of life in seventeenth-century Persia. In this beautiful book, illustrated with Chardin's drawings, Ronald Ferrier has distilled the writings and observations to produce a wonderful and evocative insight into Safavid Iran.
Publisher: New Age International
ISBN: 9781850435648
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
'Isfahan is half the world' was the proud boast of the seventeenth-century capital of Persia. One of the travellers attracted to Persia was Jean Chardin, a young French jeweller who spent most of his time in Isfahan. During this time, he became intimate with the city; he was invited into people's houses and entertained; he visited gardens and participated in hunts; his knowledge of court affairs was extensive, and he travelled many miles, visiting other towns and villages. Chardin's accounts and sketches are invaluable sources of information for all those interested in Middle East history, and they provide a vivid portrait of life in seventeenth-century Persia. In this beautiful book, illustrated with Chardin's drawings, Ronald Ferrier has distilled the writings and observations to produce a wonderful and evocative insight into Safavid Iran.
Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
Author: Lady Mary Leonora Woulfe Sheil
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by John Murray in London, 1856.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by John Murray in London, 1856.
The Siege of Isfahan
Author: Jean-Christophe Rufin
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393049886
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This is the beginning of Poncet's circuitous return to Isfahan, where his wife and daughter are trapped inside the walls by a besieging army of the Afghan king, Mahmud."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393049886
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This is the beginning of Poncet's circuitous return to Isfahan, where his wife and daughter are trapped inside the walls by a besieging army of the Afghan king, Mahmud."--BOOK JACKET.
English Women Staging Islam, 1696-1707
Author: Mrs. Manley (Mary de la Rivière)
Publisher: Acmrs Publications
ISBN: 9780772721204
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 533
Book Description
Co-published by: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies.
Publisher: Acmrs Publications
ISBN: 9780772721204
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 533
Book Description
Co-published by: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies.
Scientific Instruments between East and West
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004412840
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Scientific Instruments between East and West is a collection of essays on aspects of the transmission of knowledge about scientific instruments and the trade in such instruments between the Eastern and Western worlds, particularly from Europe to the Ottoman Empire. The contributors, from a variety of countries, draw on original Arabic and Ottoman Turkish manuscripts and other archival sources and publications dating from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries not previously studied for their relevance to the history of scientific instruments. This little-studied topic in the history of science was the subject of the 35th Scientific Instrument Symposium held in Istanbul in September 2016, where the original versions of these essays were delivered. Contributors are Mahdi Abdeljaouad, Pierre Ageron, Hamid Bohloul, Patrice Bret, Gaye Danışan, Feza Günergun, Meltem Kocaman, Richard L. Kremer, Janet Laidla, Panagiotis Lazos, David Pantalony, Atilla Polat, Bernd Scholze, Konstantinos Skordoulis, Seyyed Hadi Tabatabaei, Anthony Turner, Hasan Umut, and George Vlahakis. See inside the book here.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004412840
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Scientific Instruments between East and West is a collection of essays on aspects of the transmission of knowledge about scientific instruments and the trade in such instruments between the Eastern and Western worlds, particularly from Europe to the Ottoman Empire. The contributors, from a variety of countries, draw on original Arabic and Ottoman Turkish manuscripts and other archival sources and publications dating from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries not previously studied for their relevance to the history of scientific instruments. This little-studied topic in the history of science was the subject of the 35th Scientific Instrument Symposium held in Istanbul in September 2016, where the original versions of these essays were delivered. Contributors are Mahdi Abdeljaouad, Pierre Ageron, Hamid Bohloul, Patrice Bret, Gaye Danışan, Feza Günergun, Meltem Kocaman, Richard L. Kremer, Janet Laidla, Panagiotis Lazos, David Pantalony, Atilla Polat, Bernd Scholze, Konstantinos Skordoulis, Seyyed Hadi Tabatabaei, Anthony Turner, Hasan Umut, and George Vlahakis. See inside the book here.
Sir John Chardin's Travels in Persia
Author: Sir John Chardin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Conciatore
Author: Heiden & Engle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974352954
Category : Glass manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974352954
Category : Glass manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description