An Intrepid Scot: William Lithgow of Lanark's Travels in the Ottoman Lands, North Africa and Central Europe, 1609–21 - Image 1

£132.77

Routledge An Intrepid Scot: William Lithgow of Lanark's Travels in the Ottoman Lands, North Africa and Central Europe, 1609–21

Name: An Intrepid Scot: William Lithgow of Lanark's Travels in the Ottoman Lands, North Africa and Central Europe, 1609-21
Brand: Routledge
Price: 132.77 GBP
Availability: InStock

Africa

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£133 today · previous high £133 · all-time low £131

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 36 days · 36 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 36 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £133 (26 days, 72.2%)

Price range: £131 - £133

Price levels: 2 different prices over 36 days

Description

'An Intrepid Scot' makes an important new contribution to the growing literature on the perceptions of the Islamic world and the 'Orient' in early modern Europe, at the same time as illuminating the attitudes of a Protestant from Northern Europe towards the Catholic South. In this book Edmund Bosworth looks at the life and career of William Lithgow, a tough and opinionated Scots Protestant, who had a seemingly insatiable Wanderlust and who managed to survive various misadventures and near-death experiences in the course of his travels. These took him through a dangerously Catholic Southern Europe to a dangerously Muslim Greece and Istanbul en route for his pilgrimage destination of the Holy Land; on another occasion he went through North Africa and returned circuitously via Central and Eastern Europe; but he was stopped in his tracks whilst endeavouring to reach the court of Prester John in Ethiopia, when he fell into the hands of the Spanish Inquisition and narrowly escaped a horrible death. Lithgow was one of several men of his time who journeyed eastwards, some as far as Persia and India, but unlike many others, he has not been the subject of a special study. Bosworth now places him within the context of the present interest in perceptions of the Islamic world and of the 'Orient' and 'Orientals' in early modern Europe. In addition to the entertainment of the travel narrative, the book shows how one Westerner of the time interpreted the alien East for his readers, and how the Ottoman Empire and its apparently unstoppable might both fascinated and struck fear into the hearts of those outside it.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0754657086
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Historical > Countries & Regions > Africa
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 June 2006
Listed Since: 29 January 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge An Intrepid Scot: William Lithgow of Lanark's Travels in the Ottoman Lands, North Africa and Central Europe, 1609–21

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

An Intrepid Scot: William Lithgow of Lanark's Travels in the Ottoman Lands, North Africa and Central Europe, 1609–21

Translating Rimbaud's Illuminations

Politics and War in the Three Stuart Kingdoms, 1637-49: 25 (British History in Perspective)

Scotland and the British Empire (Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series)

The Fin-De-Siecle Scottish Revival: Romance, Decadence and Celtic Identity (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture)

The Mythology of Tourism: The Works of Sir Walter Scott and the Development of Tourism in Scotland: 42 (Scottish Studies International: Publications ... Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz in Germersheim)

Scotland and the Wider World: Essays in Honour of Allan I. Macinnes: 44 (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History)

Walter Scott and Contemporary Theory

Keywords for Travel Writing Studies: A Critical Glossary: 1 (Anthem Studies in Travel, 1)

Behind Paul Scott's Raj Quartet: A Life in Letters: Volume II: The Quartet and Beyond: 1966-1978

Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England

Behind Paul Scott's Raj Quartet: A Life in Letters: Volume I: The Early Years: 1940-1965

The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1757–1763: Research Edition: Correspondence, Volume 9 (The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell)

Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries: The Formation and Disappearance of an Ethnic Group: 57 (The Northern World, 57)

The Slow Rise to a Global World

Modern Humanities Research Association Walter Scott Yearbook

A History of Scotland: 45 (Bloomsbury Essential Histories)

Travel and Ethics: Theory and Practice (Routledge Research in Travel Writing)

The Modern Traveller, part 3 (6-vol. EP set)

Hablemos de Escocia en castellano (Vol. 2): La guía turística, cultural e histórica que te muestra en tu lengua nativa 52 maneras diferentes de conocer Escocia en más de 200 destinos

Rhetoric and Wonder in English Travel Writing - Routledge

British and Irish Experiences and Impressions of Central Europe, c.1560–1688 (Politics and Culture in Europe, 1650-1750)

Charting Scottish Tourism and the Early Scenic Film: Access, Identity and Landscape

The Imprisoned Traveler: Joseph Forsyth and Napoleon's Italy (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850)