Biography of abdur razzaq travelers palm springs

In the past six months, this page about old-time travel writing has focused almost exclusively on British writers of the late 18th or 19th centuries.

Biography of abdur razzaq travelers palm springs

This was not a conscious decision, but something which arose out of convenience: There were simply more books written in that period.

Sailing technology had progressed to an extent that vast numbers of people could go to far-flung places, and literacy rates were high enough to ensure that books about where they had been would find buyers.

But the years before the 18th century had travellers and explorers—and travel writing—too.

Generals, missionaries or ambassadors would bring in details of the places they had visited between descriptions of military tactics or religious practices. Sometimes the person doing the writing wasn’t the one doing the travelling.

Today’s book came a hundred years after Ibn Battuta’s. In 1441, Shah Rukh of Persia sent Kamal-ud-din Abdur Razzaq as an emissary to Vijayana