{"product_id":"the-book-of-travels-volume-one-hardback-9781479892303","title":"The Book of Travels; Volume One (Hardback) 9781479892303","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Book of Travels\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eVolume One\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eḤannā Diyāb (Author), Johannes Stephan (Edited by), Elias Muhanna (Translated by), Yasmine Seale (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781479892303\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 May 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e380 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.794 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Diyab's memoir of his Mediterranean adventures is a mixture of clear-eyed observation and wide-eyed innocence, nicely captured by Muhanna's lucid yet folksy English version...Throughout \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Travels\u003c\/i\u003e, realistic details are suffused with a sense of the marvelous.\" (New York Review of Books) \"It is a joy to celebrate [Ḥannā Diyāb's] work in Elias Muhanna's vibrant translation.\" (Middle East Eye)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe adventures of the man who created Aladdin\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Travels\u003c\/i\u003e is Ḥannā Diyāb's remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of Versailles and back again, which forever linked him to one of the most popular pieces of world literature, the \u003ci\u003eThousand and One Nights\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e Diyāb, a Maronite Christian, served as a guide and interpreter for the French naturalist and antiquarian Paul Lucas. Between 1706 and 1716, Diyāb and Lucas traveled through Syria, Cyprus, Egypt, Tripolitania, Tunis, Italy, and France. In Paris, Ḥannā Diyāb met Antoine Galland, who added to his wildly popular translation of the \u003ci\u003eThousand and One Nights\u003c\/i\u003e several tales related by Diyāb, including \"Aladdin\" and \"Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.\" When Lucas failed to make good on his promise of a position for Diyāb at Louis XIV's Royal Library, Diyāb returned to Aleppo. In his old age, he wrote this engaging account of his youthful adventures, from capture by pirates in the Mediterranean to quack medicine and near-death experiences.\u003cbr\u003e Translated into English for the first time, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Travels \u003c\/i\u003eintroduces readers to the young Syrian responsible for some of the most beloved stories from the\u003ci\u003e Thousand and One Nights\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e A bilingual Arabic-English edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670817534232,"sku":"9781479892303","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-book-of-travels-volume-one-hardback-9781479892303","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}