"On the Wonders of Land and Sea: Persianate Travel Writing" initiates a comparative study of non-European travel writers in the eastern Islamic or Persianate world from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. The essays in this volume discuss travel narratives by male and female Muslim and Parsi/Zoroastrian travelers in the Hijaz, Iraq, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and Europe. Focusing on the literary and linguistic aspects of the travelogues, the essays reveal links to traditional forms of narrating travel and the introduction of hybrid forms of discourse. The authors...
"On the Wonders of Land and Sea: Persianate Travel Writing" initiates a comparative study of non-European travel writers in the eastern Islamic or Per...