Ottoman Explorations of the Nile: Evliya Çelebi's Map of the Nile and the Nile Journeys in the Book of Travels (Seyahatname) by Robert Dankoff, Nuran Tezcan, Michael D. Sheridan

Ottoman Explorations of the Nile: Evliya Çelebi's Map of the Nile and the Nile Journeys in the Book of Travels (Seyahatname)

Robert Dankoff, Nuran Tezcan, Michael D. Sheridan

320 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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Before the time of Napoleon, the most ambitious effort to explore and map the Nile was undertaken by the Ottomans, as attested by two monumental documents: an elaborate map, with 475 rubrics, and a lengthy travel account. Both were achieved at abo...

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