Evliya Celebi Journey

Nowadays the wide array of transportation means and infrastructures at our disposal has made it relatively easy for us to travel from one country to another; even when those countries are thousands of miles away from each other. However, during the 13th and 14th centuries, travelling was not that easy. Yet, two men, the Italian tradesman Marco Polo and the Moroccan Jurist Ibn Battuta became famous for having managed to perform extremely long distance journeys away from their home country. At the end of their long travels, both men shared their experiences with the world via the books, The Travels of Marco Polo and The Travels of Ibn Battuta. An analysis of those two texts reveals two things. On one hand, Marco Polo remained a cultural

This travel had a deep impact on Longfellow: the traces of the European tours influence can be seen not only in Longfellow's choice of subjects, but also in his mode of life.

Many of the gaps in the historical record of human civilization have been filled in by journals written by people about the events surrounding them. Such journals give a unique view into the life of an everyday person even in the most extreme of circumstances. An example of this is the log kept by Domenico Laffi, which he wrote as a travel guide for other pilgrims in the seventeenth century. Among the common events of river crossings and wells tucked away on high mountain peaks, Laffi writes a detailed description of cities, holy rights and the scientific and technological works he encounters during his travels. Laffi's record of his travels is very important to the

The story of Benito Cereno is told in a way that the reader is unknown to the

for those who keep their thoughts raised high and their spirit and body turned to rare excitement, the city can become the impetus for a great voyage that will lead them through pleasure and knowledge to an understanding, among other things of their city’s metaphoric significance—in this case the reflection of their elevated, adventurous spirit (Keeley 37).

This essay is analysis essay to the excerpt from a journal “The Journal of the first voyage of Vasco da Gama” written by an anonymous during the early modern period, translated and edited by E. G. Ravenstein and published by the Hakluyt Society in 1989. The article is primary source of travel journal by sea of Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese navigator, from Africa to India in 1497-1498, the era of European commercial and imperial expansion. The article written by anonymous who was an eyewitness that participated in the voyage of Vasco da Gama to seeks new sea route from Portugues to India.This essay will summarize and analyze

Though not a permanent resident of Kinsay, it is allegedly believed that merchant and traveller Marco Polo spent several years in the service of the world’s largest empire. In an effort to collect information, Polo spoke of stories regarding his journey which were later documented by a fellow inmate of his at the time. Moreover, what Polo had discovered enabled the expansion of European society to take shape thus contributing to early modern global interactions and trade.

Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain is an account of the voyage of Quaker City steamship that went on a pleasure cruise through Europe and the Holy Lands in 1867. This cruise was somewhat unique for its time and only a “select” number of the wealthy and famous were allowed onboard. Their tour through the exotic lands is marked by a rampage of “innocent” destruction, such as chiseling monuments and insulting locals. All this is done in such a quaintly self-assured manner that the reader is unsure whether to pity the tourists their foolishness or call for their execution.

Constable’s “Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages” is much more than an observation on ancient hotels and hostels. More specifically, she observes the evolution from the Greek pandocheion, to the Islamic funduq, to the development of the western merchants’ fondaco. Through the illumination of these institutions and their importance, she presents an historical analysis regarding ancient societal, economical, and political attributes of this long ago world. With her research, she proposes that the region was more culturally interwoven than usually given credit for. In saying that, ultimately, the concept of colonialism is put to rest with her research. An inspiring

As Europeans discovered other cultures during the Age of Exploration, travelers returned with knowledge of new religious, political, and economic systems. Aphra Behn’s seventeenth-century travel narrative, Oroonoko, describes the life of Oroonoko, an African prince and slave in Surinam, while contrasting the cruelty of the Europeans with the morality of the Africans and natives of Surinam. Thomas More’s sixteenth-century Utopia displays his subtle criticism of English society behind the words of his character Raphael Hythloday, who travels the world and explores the rationality of Utopia. These authors criticize many of the conventions of their time periods through their characters’ explorations into new ideas and territories. In Oroonoko and Utopia, nature and reason lead the natives’ governments and societies instead of the corruption of the wealthy and noble Europeans.

Where does the example from ‘Travels' take place?      -from Philadelphia ; it comes from eastern Florida What value does a reading like ‘Travels' have for us today? Historical, scientific, entertainment?      -the

The art of story telling has been a way of passing down literature for many years. Through the history of time we know of traditions and legends that have been passed down through stories told around campfires late in the evenings and dinner tables filled with families. Despite the accuaracy that may be tried for, there are always details that are excluded, or included in these stories that may not be true. Every story teller has their own styles and reasons that they tell their stories the way they do. In the stories that we have read over the course of the semester, we have been presented with a number of different tales and people who have told them. Between Elviya Celebi, the tale of Lazarillo, and John Milton’s Paradise Lost, we readers

The postcolonial travelogue is one of the most innovative subgenre of travel writing. The social and political changes of postcolonial period changed the subject matter of the travel writings. The discourse of travel in West Indian post colonial travelogue has its origin in British imperial literary traditions. The displacement of blacks from Africa and their implantation in the America have left them in a state of rootlessness and alienation. They constantly search for their home. “Journeys across national borders frequently prompt reflections on the change of social status—even of “color”—occasioned by the transition from one racial regime to another. If the dominant tradition in travel literature tells of journeys from the metropolitan center to a (neocolonial) periphery that is assumed to be unfamiliar to the author and his or her readers, black Atlantic

Sebastien Manrique, a priest who went on a journey to India for missionary work, writes his experiences to educate his audience as well as entertain the audience. While writing this well-constructed article, Manrique keeps his audience in mind by providing exceptionally detailed experiences that he had on his journey. He is able to portray his journey as if the reader were truly there alongside him. The reader is able to imagine the drastic situations he went through on his journey due to the “monsoon floods, voracious mosquitos, appetizing peacocks, violent fever and affronted villagers – as well as threatening Mughal officials.” He is also well aware of what he must do in order to continue his narrative without boring his audience, “give a detailed description of their appearance and control, as well as of the arrangements made in them.”

Between the fourth and the fifteenth centuries, three distinct kinds of travelers traversed the vast and unfamiliar landscapes of Europe: the Scholar, the Crusader, and the Pilgrim. In the centuries of Travel writing that followed, these categories have been seen as giving way to each other. The pilgrim gave way to the merchant, the explorer and the philosopher.Compared to our current “small world,” the lands and cultures across oceans and  over the next mountain range were a source of mystery to people of the earlier centuries.The narratives of Marco Polo and John Mandeville marked the beginning of a new impulse in the late middle ages and transformed the traditional paradigms of pilgrimage and crusade into new forms attentive to experience