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Index
Title Page
Introduction
Literary allusions
Glossary
VOLUME 1
Istanbul
1 Introduction: The dream
2 The Süleymaniye Mosque
3 The antiquity of smoking
4 Galata
5 Kağıthane
6 Guilds’ parade
7 Lağari Hasan Çelebi
VOLUME 2
Anatolia and beyond
1 Setting out
2 Hot Springs of Bursa
3 Return to Istanbul
4 Hamsi in Trabzon
5 Black Sea adventure
6 Tabriz
7 Cat-brokers of Ardabil
8 Oil wells of Baku
9 Cathedral of Echmiadzin
10 Ankara
VOLUME THREE
In the Retinue of Melek Ahmed Pasha
1 Nasreddin Hoca in Akşehir
2 Safed
3 Sheikh Bekkar the Naked on the road outside Damascus
4 The girl who gave birth to an elephant
5 Armenian
6 The cats of Divriği
7 Witchcraft in a Bulgarian village
8 Sofia
VOLUME FOUR
1 Diyarbekir
2 Bitlis
3 The ruined city of Ahlat
4 On ‘extinguishing the candle’
VOLUME FIVE
East Anatolia and the Balkans
1 Highwaymen in the Bolu Pass; return to Van
2 Escape from Bitlis
3 Diplomacy in Split (Spalato)
4 The bandit Yano
VOLUME SIX
Hungary and the German Campaign
1 An incident on the battlefield
2 Shkodër (Scutari)
3 The Samakov iron works
4 An adventure near Komorn; Tatar raid into Western Europe
5 Dubrovnik (Ragusa)
6 The great bridge at Mostar
VOLUME SEVEN
Habsburg Borderlands, Crimea and beyond
1 Raiding expeditions in ‘Germany’; a fabulous tree in Krokondar
2 The battle on the Raab River (Battle of Saint Gotthard, 1664)
3 Comparison of Austrians and Hungarians
4 A pleasure resort near Vienna; the free conduct of women
5 Vienna
6 Crimea
7 A meal of strange honey in Circassia
8 Kalmyks and cannibalism
VOLUME EIGHT
Greece and the Conquest of Crete
1 Return to Crimea
2 Report to the Sultan in Edirne
3 The Gypsies of Gümülcine (Komotini)
4 Athens
5 Balibadra: A great cypress tree and the five ethnic groups of the Morea
6 Siege of Candia: Ministrations to the wounded and Saint Green-Arm
7 A captive woman in Kolorya
8 Fair at Doyran
VOLUME NINE
Pilgrimage
1 Setting out on the Hajj
2 Brigands at the Alman Pass; Ephesus
3 Safed and the land of Canaan
4 Jerusalem
5 Sheikh Bekkar the Naked in Damascus
6 The Hajj caravan; Muzayrib, the Hajj bazaar
7 Medina
8 The People of Mecca
9 Uyun al-qasab
10 St Catherine’s Monastery on Mt Sinai
VOLUME TEN
Egypt and Sudan
1 Adam’s prayer for Egypt in ‘Hebrew’
2 Relation among Nile overflow, plenty and poverty, crowdedness of Cairo, people and donkeys
3 Snake medicine and snake charming
4 Rain, snow and hail in Egypt in 1083 (1672)
5 Crocodiles
6 The Cairo underworld and unusual trades
7 Trades and products lacking in Egypt
8 Chicken incubation; Sabil Allam stones
9 Exploring a pyramid
10 Weddings, circumcision, etc.
11 Mevlud of Seyyid Ahmad al-Badawi in Tanta
12 Mountain of the Birds
13 Map of the Nile
14 Meeting with Kör Husayn Qan
15 Meeting with Qan Girgis; encounter with two Bektashi dervishes
16 Elephants and monkeys
17 Envoi
APPENDIX
Outline of Journeys and Events in the Ten Volumes of the Book of Travels
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
Copyright
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