This two-volume English translation of part of a longer travel narrative by the Ottoman aristocrat Evilya elebi (1611-c.1680) was translated by the Austrian scholar Joseph von Hammer (1774-1856) and published in 1834 by the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, set up to make 'Eastern' texts more widely available in English. elebi was highly educated, had served the Ottoman court both as a diplomat and as a soldier, and as he says,...
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