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On the Wonders of Land and Sea is a comparative study of travel writers in the eastern Islamic world from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Situating texts in their socio-historical contexts, the essays study works by male and female Muslim and Parsi/Zoroastrian travelers in the Hijaz, Iraq, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and Europe.

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    A Paperback / softback by Roberta Micallef, Sunil Sharma, Omar Khalidi

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      Publisher: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
      Publication Date: 27/05/2013
      ISBN13: 9780674073340, 978-0674073340
      ISBN10: 0674073347

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      Book Synopsis
      On the Wonders of Land and Sea is a comparative study of travel writers in the eastern Islamic world from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Situating texts in their socio-historical contexts, the essays study works by male and female Muslim and Parsi/Zoroastrian travelers in the Hijaz, Iraq, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and Europe.

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