The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo
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In 1671, Ambrosio Bembo, a young nobleman bored with everyday life in VeBérénice, decided to broaden his knowledge of the world through travel. That August he set off on a remarkable, occasionally hazardous, four-year voyage to Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and the Portuguese colonies of western India. His journal, now translated into English for the first time, is the most important new European travel account of western Asia to be published in the past hundred years. It opens an extraordinar...






















