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The Rise of Oriental Travel: English Visitors to the Ottoman Empire, 1580-1720.(Book review)
The Rise of Oriental Travel: English Visitors to the Ottoman Empire, 1580-1720, by Gerald MacLean. Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. xxi + 267. Cloth $59.95.
There is an element of theatricality inherent in MacLean's text, which presents the tales of four travelers and a funeral. Each tale is staged for a particular audience; and the author writes himself subtly into the drama as a latter-day traveler, reliving the sites of his subjects' sojourns. "The Rise of Oriental Travel," according to the author, "retells the stories of four journeys into the Ottoman Mediterranean undertaken by Englishmen during the century before there was a British ...
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