The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2

The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2
Author: Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2022-09-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq is a tell-all of de Busbecq's experiences as an ambassador. Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, sometimes Augier Ghislain de Busbecq, was a 16th-century Flemish writer, herbalist, and diplomat in the employ of three generations of Austrian monarchs. He served as ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople and in 1581 published a book about his time there, Itinera Constantinopolitanum et Amasianum, re-published in 1595 under the title of Turcicae epistolae or Turkish Letters.

Travel Fact and Travel Fiction

Travel Fact and Travel Fiction
Author: Z.R.W.M. von Martels
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 265
Release: 1994-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004247092

Travel Fact and Travel Fiction contains 18 articles by different authors on important examples of travel writing from Classical Antiquity (Herodotus) until the first half of the nineteenth century. Discussed are among others Herodotus, Egeria, Rubruck, Marco Polo, Columbus, Joachim Du Bellay, Busbequius, Gryphius, Goethe and Dickens. Central themes are fiction, literary tradition, scholarly discovery and observation.

Matters of Exchange

Matters of Exchange
Author: Harold John Cook
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0300134924

In this provocative book, Richard Sennett looks at the ways today's global, ever-mutable form of capitalism is affecting our lives. He analyzes how changes in work ethic, in our attitudes toward merit and talent, and in public and private institutions have all contributed to what he terms 'the spectre of uselessness', and he concludes with suggestions to counter this disturbing new culture.