Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow
Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle East ca. 1610 by William Lithgow

Detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and elsewhere in the Levant and Middle Ea 1682

William Lithgow

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  • Sobre arte
    Nineteen years travels through the most eminent places in the habitable world.
    London, for John Wright & Thomas Passinger, 1682. 8vo. With a folding woodcut frontispiece, 6 folding woodcut plates and 1 woodcut in the text. 19th-century dark brown sheepskin.

    Third complete edition (the first under the present title) of a classic account of three voyages by the Scotsman William Lithgow (1582-1645?), mostly on foot, from Rome to Greece, Crete, Turkey, Cyprus, the Holy Land, Egypt and Malta, continental Europe and North Africa, and through the British Isles and the Iberian peninsula. He gives the earliest clear account of coffee drinking in Europe, describes Turkish baths and long Turkish tobacco pipes, pigeon post between Aleppo and Bagdad and the hatching of chicken eggs by artificial incubation.
    The book went through more than a dozen editions in the course of two centuries. "He ... had a greater knowledge of the interior of the countries he visited than most travellers of this period. He provides interesting details of the society, men, and manners he observed" (Blackmer).
    Some plates bound at wrong position. With an occasional small tear or hole; trimmed, occasionally shaving a running head; and with the frontispiece backed with later paper. A pioneering travel account, including detailed observations of life in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and other parts of the Middle East.
    Howgego, to 1800, L134; Wing L2541; cf. Blackmer 1021 (1640 ed.); for Lithgow: DNB XXXIII, p. 361.
  • Sobre artista
    William Lithgow nasceu por volta de 1585 em Lanark, Escócia. Ele era conhecido como um viajante, autor e suposto espião. Ele era o filho mais velho de James Lithgow, que vinha de uma família de mercadores. Antes de 1610, ele já havia visitado a Suíça, Boêmia e Shetland. 1610 foi também o ano em que decidiu viajar para Paris e depois para Roma, onde permaneceu quatro semanas. Depois disso, ele visitou outras partes da Itália como Nápoles e Acona e cidades como Atenas e Constantinopla também, antes de seguir para a Palestina, Egito e Fez. Sua última viagem, na qual ele partiu para a Espanha, infelizmente terminou quando sua identidade como espião foi descoberta. Ele foi torturado por causa disso. Lithgow afirmou ter viajado mais de 36.000 milhas a pé, e sua obra literária mais famosa, Aventuras raras e peregrinações dolorosas, portanto, consiste em relatos de suas viagens.

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