A new account of East India and Persia : being nine years' travels, 1672-1681. Volume III / by John Fryer ; edited, with notes and an introduction, by William Crooke ...
Composed in the form of letters and first published in 1698. This volume, edited with notes and an introduction, contains Letters V (continued) - Letter VIII. Continues Second Series 19 and 20. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1915.
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| Language: | English |
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Ashgate
2011.
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| Series: | Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ;
2nd ser., no. 19-20, 39. |
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| Summary: | Composed in the form of letters and first published in 1698. This volume, edited with notes and an introduction, contains Letters V (continued) - Letter VIII. Continues Second Series 19 and 20. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1915. Describes the cities of Surat and Bombay, the life and trade there, as well as at Madras; includes an account of the struggle of the Maharattas under Sivaji to resist absorption into Aurangzib's empire, an analysis of the political state of the kingdom of Bijapur, and information about natural science. The Persian portion of the book recounts the eighteen-month sojurn the author spent in southern Persia and Isphahan in 1677-78. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (284 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1283047845 9781283047845 |