Author: Sir Thomas RoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Travels in India in the Seventeenth Century
Author: Sir Thomas RoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Travels in India in the Seventeenth Century
Author: Thomas RoePublisher:
ISBN: 9780461913040
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
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India in the Seventeenth Century, Being an Account of the Two Voyages to India by Ovington and Thevenot, to which is Added the Indian Travels of Careri
Author: J. P. GuhaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Travels in India in the Seventeenth Century: by Sir Thomas Roe and Dr. John Fryer. Reprinted from the "Calcutta Weekly Englishman.".
Author: Sir Thomas RoeIndia in the Seventeenth Century
Author: John OvingtonEarly Travels in India
Author: James Talboys WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
India in the Seventeenth Century
Author: John OvingtonTravels in India
Author: Jean-Baptiste TavernierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-89) was one of the most renowned travelers of 17th century Europe. The son of a French Protestant who had fled Antwerp to escape religious persecution, Tavernier was a jewel merchant who between 1632 and 1668 made six voyages to the East. The countries he visited (most more than once) included present-day Cyprus, Malta, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. In 1676 he published his two-volume Les six voyages de Jean Baptiste Tavernier (The six voyages of Jean Baptiste Tavernier). An abridged and very imperfect English translation of the book appeared in 1677. The first modern scholarly edition in English, presented here, was published in 1889, with translation, notes, and a biographical sketch of Tavernier by Dr. Valentine Ball (1843-95), a British civil servant with the Indian Geological Service. Among the most memorable chapters in the book are those that recount Tavernier's visits to the diamond mines of India and his inspection of the jewels of the Great Mogul. Tavernier was not a scholar or an educated linguist, and after his initial popularity in the 17th century his authority waned, as historians and others questioned the accuracy of his observations. In the 20th century, however, Tavernier's reputation rose, as such important historians as Lucien Febvre and Fernand Braudel used the detailed information he recorded about the prices and qualities of goods and about business and commercial practices in their pioneering studies of economic and social history. The book contains several appendices by Ball about famous diamonds (including the historic Koh-i-Noor Diamond now belonging to the British royal family), diamond mines in India and Borneo, ruby mines in Burma, and sapphire washings in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). A fold-out map shows Tavernier's voyages in India and the mines he visited.
Memorable Description of the East Indian Voyage, 1618-25
Author: Willem Ysbrandsz BontekoePublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415344727
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Bontekoe's East Indian Voyage was one of the most popular books in which the Dutch seventeenth century public delighted and it continued to be reprinted throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Author: J. P. Guha