Format:
1 online resource (475 pages)
ISBN:
9781409415374
Series Statement:
Hakluyt Society, First Series v.32
Content:
COVER -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE, BY THE TRANSLATOR -- INTRODUCTION, BY THE EDITOR -- THE TRAVELS OF LUDOVICO DI VARTHEMA -- DEDICATION TO COUNTESS OF ALBI AND DUCHESS OF TAGLIACOZZO -- THE FIRST CHAPTER, CONCERNING ALEXANDRIA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING CAIRO -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING BARUTI, TRIPOLI, AND ALEPPO -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING AMAN AND MENIN -- THE FIRST CHAPTER CONCERNING DAMASCUS -- THE SECOND CHAPTER CONCERNING THE SAID DAMASCUS -- CHAPTER THE THIRD, CONCERNING THE MAMELUKES IN DAMASCUS -- THE BOOK CONCERNING ARABIA DESERTA -- THE CHAPTER SHOWING THE ROUTE FROM DAMASCUS TO MECCA, WHEREIN SOME ARABS ARE CONCERNED -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE CITY OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING A MOUNTAIN INHABITED BY JEWS -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING WHERE MAHOMET AND HIS COMPANIONS WERE BURIED -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE TEMPLE AND SEPULCHRE OF MAHOMET AND HIS COMPANIONS -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE JOURNEY TO GO FROM MEDINA TO MECCA -- THE CHAPTER SHOWING HOW MECCA IS CONSTRUCTED, AND WHY THE MOORS GO TO MECCA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE MERCHANDIZE IN MECCA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE PARDONING IN MECCA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE MANNER OP THE SACRIFICES IN MECCA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE UNICORNS IN THE TEMPLE OF MECCA, NOT VERY COMMON IN OTHER PLACES -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING SOME OCCURRENCES BETWEEN MECCA AND ZIDA A PORT OF MECCA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING ZIDA, THE PORT OF MECCA, AND OF THE RED SEA -- THE CHAPTER SHOWING WHY THE BED SEA IS NOT NAVIGABLE -- THE SECOND BOOK OF ARABIA FELIX -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE CITY OF GEZAN, AND OF ITS FERTILITY -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING SOME PEOPLE CALLED BADUIN -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF THE RED SEA CALLED OHAMARAM -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE CITY OF ADEN, AND OF SOME CUSTOMS RESPECTING THE MERCHANTS.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781409412984
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781409412984
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3002290
