The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, in Persia, India, and Ethiopa, A.D. 1503 to 1508
Translated from the Original Italian Edition of 1510

This volume (1863) documents the travels of Ludovico di Varthema to Egypt, Syria, Persia and India in 1502–1508.

Lodovico de Varthema (Author), John Winter Jones (Translated by), George Percy Badger (Edited by)

9781108010764, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 May 2010

484 pages, 2 maps
21.6 x 14 x 2.7 cm, 0.61 kg

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This 1863 volume contains a Victorian translation of Ludovico di Varthema's account of his travels, originally published in 1510, and translated into many European languages within a few years. Ludovico set off from Italy in 1502 (determined, he says, 'to investigate some small portion of this our terrestrial globe') and travelled first to Egypt and Syria; he then journeyed through the Arabian peninsula (where he was imprisoned as a spy), Persia and India, and reached the Molucca islands before returning to Europe in 1508.

Preface
Introduction
Travels of Ludovico di Varthema: Book concerning Arabia Deserta
The second book - Of Arabia Felix
The book concerning Persia
The first book concerning India
The second book concerning India
The third book concerning India
The book concerning Ethiopia
Index.

Subject Areas: Geography [RG]