Travelogue Set-8 Book Set

İLBER ORTAYLI TRAVEL REPORT – İLBER ORTAYLI

Who knows better, the one who travels a lot or the one who reads a lot? What about those who have the opportunity to travel while studying? If you want to accompany İlber Ortaylı, this book is for you...
“In order to learn an important geography and historical area like Turkey, it is inevitable to understand Southern Russia and the Caucasus in its north, Iran and India in its east, Syria, Palestine and Mesopotamia in its south, as well as the Balkans and Mediterranean countries.”
İlber Ortaylı
Who knows better, the one who travels a lot or the one who reads a lot? What about those who have the opportunity to travel while studying? If you want to accompany İlber Ortaylı, this book is for you...
İlber Ortaylı is not only a great name in our historiography, but also a "traveller" who has been traveling from Central Asia to Europe, from the Caucasus to the Middle East for 50 years, with a small suitcase and guidebooks. The geographies we will visit with the narrative power of İlber Ortaylı, who conveys the most important notes from his countless journeys, are as follows: Syria, Jordan, Israel, Iran, Azerbaijan, Russia, Crimea, Uzbekistan, Danube, Bosnia, Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Hungary, Romania. , Former Austria, Greece, Italy, Malta, Spain, Portugal, Lithuania, Estonia, Sweden, India, Japan and Singapore.
If you are ready, your journey with İlber Ortaylı that you will never forget in your life begins...

MONGOLIA TRAVEL REPORT – JOHANN DE PLANO CARPINI
Journey from Europe to Asia in the 13th Century 1245-1247
A First-Hand Written Source About the “Mongol Age of the World”…
The Mongols, who had the mightiest army in history, shook not only the Eastern world but also the Western world with every step they took. Especially when the Mongol armies crossed Hungary and reached the Adriatic coast, the Western world, especially the Pope, was horrified by this invasion that grew like a flood. Pope Innocentius (1243-1254) immediately sent ambassadors to the Mongols and ordered them to attempt peace.
The famous traveler of the 13th century, Johann de Plano Carpini, was a monk who showed great courage and went to the ruler of the Mongolian imperial palace, stayed in the Mongolian lands for months, got to know them in detail, and was able to return alive to the presence of the Pope. Carpini did not only describe what he saw in Mongolian lands in the travelogue he wrote after his ambassadorship. He recorded the customs and traditions of the Mongols, their lives, beliefs, worship, traditions, history, war methods and relations with other nations. He also took his travelogue one step further with his concrete suggestions on what precautions Westerners should take against the Mongol threat.
Prof. Dr. In this study, prepared for publication with Ergin Ayan's translation and notes, the Mongol homeland with its geography and climate, the Mongolian people from their clothing to their ideas of ownership, Mongolian religious ceremonies called Ritus, Mongolian life from their laws to their food, the Mongolian Empire from its foundation to its rulers, from its martial arts to its armies, the Mongolian Empire from the countries they conquered to their expulsion. The "Mongol Age of the World", which pierces history until now, is revealed.
The work titled Mongolian Travelogue: Journey from Europe to Central Asia in the 13th Century (1245-1247) is a first-hand source about the most important times of the Mongols, which will never leave the collective memory and subconscious of humanity throughout world history.

GENGIZ KHAN'S QUEST FOR IMMORTALITY – CH'ANG CH'UN
Turkestan Travelogue of a Taoist Alchemist Monk (1221-1224)
The Spiritual World of Genghis Khan and the Turkestan Geography of Time…
“The Almighty God has withdrawn from China because it leads an arrogant and wasteful life. Because I live in the deserted deserts of the north, I have no ambition. I hate luxurious living and have a measured lifestyle. A bite of food and a cardigan are enough for me. “I eat the same food and wear the same rags as my simple shepherds.”
–From the letter in which Genghis Khan invited Ch'ang Ch'un
In what political atmosphere did Genghis Khan emerge? To what extent did the Mongols practice their religion and what was their relationship with Buddhism? Who was Genghis Khan's privileged Buddhist monk, Hai-yün? How has Taoism developed throughout history? What were the principles of the Ch'üan-chen sect of Taoism?
How did the connection between Chinese Alchemy and Taoism develop? What was the situation in Turkestan during the time of Ch'ang Ch'un, who accepted the invitation sent by Genghis Khan?
The book you have in your hand is a Chinese source from the Mongol age. Taoist alchemist Ch'ang Ch'un and his disciples, who were invited to his tent by Genghis Khan, traveled to Turkestan between 1221 and 1224, and the notes of their travels have survived to this day. This source, which provides interesting information about the traditions and customs of many Turkish tribes, is also an important work that sheds light on the historical geography of Turkestan. The nature descriptions in the travelogue, which also provides information about the fauna and flora of the region, are extremely impressive.
Following Ch'ang Ch'un's death in 1227, the travel notes written by his disciple Li Chih-Ch'ang (1193-1256) were forgotten for a long time and were discovered centuries later, in 1795, in a monastery in China. By 1848, it was published in Chinese, and later Russian and English translations were made. Genghis Khan's Quest for Immortality: Turkestan Travels of a Taoist Alchemist Monk (1221-1224), which we brought to our language with the translation of Gülşah Hasgüçmen, is a very special source book because it not only reveals the inner world and quests of a leader, but also explains the geography of the period in detail...

EASTERN TRAVEL REPORT – RICOLDUS DE MONTE CRUCIS
A Dominican Monk's Journey to Anatolia and the Middle East, 1289-1291
Journey to the Middle East at the End of the Century
Ricoldus de Monte Crucis's travelogue, written in an honest and relatively impartial language, is a very valuable work in terms of drawing the panorama of a period when the Latin presence in the Middle East ended, the region began to stabilize after the Mongol invasion, and the actors who would dominate that geography in the following centuries emerged. . In addition, the Eastern Travelogue is waiting to be read and understood as it goes beyond the militarist perspective towards the Muslim world and becomes a source that determines the direction of the East-West dichotomy for the next 300 years and a pioneer of orientalism. Considering that although he did not have a very tolerant view of the Muslim faith, he did not make the mistake of his co-religionist theologians who wrote about the rejection of Islam before him and revealed the fact that Islam is not a perversion but a completely different religion, it is necessary to put Ricoldus' view of the region and its people in a completely different place.
The Dominican Order, which started its activities in Tbilisi in the 1240s and determined the Middle East as its field of activity, expanded its field of duty to Tabriz over time. One of the monks assigned by the sect to obtain information about the Anatolian and Middle Eastern lands and to carry out missionary activities is Ricoldus de Monte Crucis. Ricoldus, who started his journey from the Holy Land, continued in Cilicia, Eastern Anatolia, Azerbaijan, Iran and Iraq and ended in Baghdad, has produced a unique source on the peoples and traditions of the Middle East with his work. The Eastern Travelogue, originally titled Liber Peregrinationis in Partibus Orientis, written by the monk during his stay in Baghdad in 1289-1291, is one of the leading Western sources that is as good as modern historiography with its sections describing the period of Baghdad under Mongol occupation.
Eastern Travelogue, translated and annotated from the Latin original by Ahmet Deniz Altunbaş, includes Syria, Galilee, Tiberias, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Jordan, Palestine, Tripoli, Tartus, Cilicia, Yumurtalık, Taurus Mountains, Sivas, Erzurum, Ağrı, Tabriz, Baghdad, Mosul, Tikrit. It successfully reflects the unique multicultural atmosphere of the Middle East and Mesopotamia, which still maintain their uniqueness in the world, and deserves to be read with interest today.

IRAN TRAVEL REPORT – EBU DÜLEF
Journey from the Caucasus to the Persian Gulf in the 10th Century
A fairy tale journey to the geography of 10th century Iran…
Travelogues are much more than a traveler's personal observations. A travelogue reader both travels to the geography of that time and discovers the people, climate, trade, beliefs, traditions and other qualities of that geography. Therefore, travelogues are more of a guidebook than a history book.
Zeki Velidi Togan, the legendary name of Turkish historiography, set out for the lands of Khorasan with Abdülkadir İnan in 1922. During the travel, they found a work of Ebu Dülef Mis'ar bin Mühelhil el-Hazrecî Yenbuî, a traveler, man of letters and naturalist, written during the Samanid period: Iran Travelogue (Rihle fî Vasati Asiya).
Abu Dülef is a very important traveler who traveled on the lands currently located on the borders of Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey, and wrote down his notes in a unique style, from the history of these geographies to their legends, from their mines to their medicinal plants, from their customs to their lives. Iran Travelogue, on the other hand, is a reference in terms of dispelling the clouds of uncertainty over the geography and people of the period in which it was written and giving critical clues about the situation of the Seljuk domination that would be established in the region after a while.
IRAN TRAVEL BOOK This work, which was translated into Turkish for the first time, was meticulously translated by Serdar Gündoğdu, one of our young historians, and the information given by Abu Dülef was compared with other important travel books and additional notes were added. This book, where history, geography and travel meet, has the status of a rare resource in bringing scientific light to a legendary period where objective data is scarce.

TURKISTAN'S AGE OF DISCOVERY – MURAT ÖZKAN
Bukhara through the Eyes of Russian Traveler Burnashev
The Geography of Turkestan, Sad with Its Fortune and Legendary with its History…
Turkestan geography is the most unfortunate geography of the world, where power and authority have been the battlefield since ancient times, where money and ambition have been embodied in the form of 'Erlik'. This place has always attracted the attention of the surrounding states with its richness in underground resources, being at the center of trade routes and untouched fertile lands.
The 18th century was the age of Russian exploration of Turkestan. The Russians, who used every means to collect information and documents in line with the interests of the country, appointed very intelligent and hard-working people who were specially trained and preferably had a certain army and state training in critical regions such as Turkestan. The officer sent to the region by the Russians during this period was Timofey Stepanovich Burnashev.
The work in your hand tells in all its striking detail the 'discovery' of Bukhara, the 'silk city', the capital of science and art, by foreigners, and the reason why the Russians, the British, the Americans and other nations, especially Timofey Stepanovich Burnashev, scoured the region for their personal interests, and why the rulers of Bukhara were infected. It is a kind of proof that they record all the way down to their emitting flies.
How did the Russians spread in Turkestan and what kind of military policy did they pursue here? What kind of relations took place in Bukhara-Russia diplomacy? What was the situation in terms of politics and administration in the Khanate of Bukhara in the 18th century? From daily life to economic and demographic movements, how did travelers describe Bukhara?
Turkestan's Age of Discovery: Bukhara through the Eyes of Russian Traveler Burnashev, where you will find answers to many questions about Turkestan, is a very shocking and meticulous work in every aspect for those who want to rediscover the history of Turkestan...

TRAVEL TO THE GREAT KHAN OF THE MOGHOLS – WILHELM VON RUBRUK
Journey from Istanbul to Karakorum in the 13th Century 1253-1255
Rediscovering the Mongol World of the 13th Century…
The great Mongol invasion left the Christian world in the west as well as the Muslim world in the east in fear. When the Mongol armies crossed Hungary and reached the Adriatic coast, the entire Western world, especially the Pope, began to consider measures against this indescribable invasion. Establishing friendly relations with the Mongols was determined as the first thing to be done.
Establishing various relationships with the Mongols would also enable us to know them in detail. Priests from various sects set out to explore the Mongolian world by order of the Pope and the kings. One of those who traveled to the Mongolian world to do missionary work was the well-known traveler Rubruk, who served by order of the King of France.
In his travelogue, Rubruk conveyed the countries, history and social life of the Mongols based on his experiences. This travelogue was considered a first-hand source because it provided the first well-established information after Carpini's travelogue. Some of the subjects that Rubruk included in unique details in his travelogue are as follows: Mongolian houses, tent life, religious customs, nutrition and dairy economy, animals they eat, clothing, hunting, aesthetic tastes, division of labor between men and women, family structures, laws, geography, climate. , architectural structures, intrigues, Nestorians, Muslims and pagans encountered throughout the journey, neighboring countries, the appearance before the Mongolian Ruler Möngke Khan...
Travel to the Great Khan of the Mongols: From Istanbul to Karakorum (1253-1255) is a very important work for those who want to study the political and social history of the Mongols and for those who are curious...

EINSTEIN TRAVEL OTHER – ALBERT EINSTEIN
Far East, Palestine & Spain 1922-1923
A World Famous Genius' Discovery of the East and the Mediterranean…
“In the autumn of 1922, Albert Einstein was one of the most famous people in the world. He achieved fame thanks to science. He was about to receive the Nobel Prize. This magnificent travelogue, consisting of notes from his travels to Japan, China, Singapore, Palestine and Spain, shows Einstein's human side. Ze'ev Rosenkranz, editor of the Einstein Papers, has provided a treasure trove for both researchers and Einstein's fans by contextualizing what is written in the travelogue with his explanations.”
Walter Isaacson, Tulane University, author of Einstein: His Life and Universe
“The book that provides the most intense and comprehensive information about Einstein's travels to the Far East, Palestine and Spain in 1922-1923 is the Einstein Travelogue. None of Einstein's biographies offers such a clear and important account of his travels. "This valuable book, meticulously documented, fills an important gap in Einstein's life."
Danian Hu, author of China and Albert Einstein
In the autumn of 1922, Albert Einstein went on a five-and-a-half month trip to the Far East and the Middle East with his wife Elsa Einstein. Hong Kong, Singapore and Sri Lanka were among the destinations of the world-famous physicist, who had never visited these regions before. Einstein, who also stayed in China for a short time, went to Japan, which he later stated that he admired, and gave incredibly intense lectures there. Einstein stayed in Palestine for twelve days and spent the last three weeks of his trip in Spain.
The book you have in your hand contains all the notes taken by Albert Einstein during his historic trip. It is possible to read Einstein's thoughts about science, philosophy, art and politics in the most sincere way, accompanied by his brief diary notes and his style reminiscent of a telegram text. In addition, his feelings in events such as the inaugural lecture he gave in the area where the Hebrew University in Jerusalem will be established, a garden party hosted by the Empress of Japan, his meeting with the King of Spain and his meetings with many leading scientists and statesmen are also among the most interesting texts. constitutes the topics. Einstein's controversial ideas about people of different nations and the concept of race are perhaps the most shocking part of the diary.
Einstein's Travelogue, which includes many photographs, letters, postcards, maps and charts, offers the opportunity to travel into the world of thought of a genius who encountered the Eastern and Mediterranean geography.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 1496

Size: 13.5 x 21

First Print Year: 2020

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language Turkish