Travels in the East

di Constantin von Tischendorf (Autore)

W. E. Shuckard (Traduttore)

Cambridge University Press, 2010

This work, first published in 1847, is an account by Constantin von Tischendorf (1815-74) of his journeying in the Middle East at the beginning of the 1840s. It is part travel log and part account of the Christian history of the area. After encounters with such men as Mehmet Ali and Ibrahim Pasha, he visits the library of the Patriarch of Alexandria. The German biblical scholar then travels to the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai, where he makes the extraordinary discovery of a previously unknown fourth-century manuscript, one of the main witnesses to the Septuagint, before reaching the main goal of his long journey - Jerusalem. This lively narrative by a controversial scholar-explorer also entertains the reader with some of the more unexpected elements of his travels, such as an attack by robbers who are routed when he draws his sword.

• Autore: Constantin von Tischendorf
• Traduttore: W. E. Shuckard
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
• Anno: 2010
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 308 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Peso: 390 gr.
• EAN: 9781108014793

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