Book ID: CBB098707145

Ottoman Explorations of the Nile. Evliya Çelebi's "Matchless Pearl these Reports of the Nile" Map and His Accounts of the Nile and the Horn of Africa in "The Book of Travels" (2018)

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Dankoff, Robert (Author)
Tezcan, Nuran (Author)
Sheridan, Michael (Author)


Gingko Library


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 442
Language: English

This is a new, revised and expanded English edition of the 2010 Turkish publication, which first contextualises Çelebi’s elaborate map of the Nile and his account of his Nile journeys in Volume 10 of his Seyahatname (The Books of Travels) and then presents both the map and travel account in an English translation. The book is the third in the Royal Asiatic Society‘s Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt Fund Series, published in collaboration with the Gingko Library and includes a folded, colour copy of the complete map of the Nile (held in the Vatican Library; Vat. Turc. 73). As the preface states, these two documents attest to “the most ambitious effort, before the time of Napoleon…to explore and map out the Nile…undertaken by the Ottomans – circa 1685 – and both apparently by the same man.” (Preface, x).

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Authors & Contributors
Brentjes, Sonja
Laura Walker
William Frame
Stronks, Els
Forss, Charlotta
Debby, Nirit Ben-Aryeh
Concepts
Maps; atlases
Cartography
Travel; exploration
Geography
Travel literature
Science and culture
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
16th century
Early modern
15th century
19th century
Places
Ottoman Empire
Netherlands
Europe
Australia
Roman Empire
Roman Republic
Institutions
Dutch East India Company
British East India Company
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