Philip Mansel

Under Eastern eyes

The Ottoman Empire inspired great travel books as well as great architects. Travellers like George Sandys, Richard Pococke or the Chevalier d’Arvieux in the 17th and 18th centuries were curious, erudite and less arrogant than their 19th-century successors.

  • An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evilya Celebi

    translated by Robert Dankoff and Sooyong Kim

    Eland, pp. 482

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