Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. II
1834
Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. II
1834
Translated by Joseph, Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall
One of the great travel narratives in world literature, written by an Ottoman polymath whose eyes never stopped wondering. Evliya Çelebi began his epic journeys in 1611 and spent the rest of his life recording what he saw across three continents. This volume follows him from Constantinople down the Sea of Marmara to Bursa, the former Ottoman capital, where he gets lost in the city's legendary bazaars, measures the domes of its great mosques, and baths himself in waters that have healed sultans for centuries. But this is more than a guidebook. It is a portrait of an empire at its zenith, seen through the eyes of a man who approached every market stall, fountain, and roadside inn as if witnessing it for the first time. His prose pulses with enthusiasm, precision, and occasional awe. Here you will find the texture of 17th-century life: the sound of boatmen singing on the water, the smell of spices in Bursa's markets, the geometric perfection of Seljuk and Ottoman architecture. For anyone curious about the real Ottoman Empire, not the mythology but the living, breathing world that produced it, there is no better place to start.
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