Books in the Travellers in the Wider Levant series

This new translation makes accessible an unusual account, by a soldier and administrator, of 17th century Japan and the civilizations with which it had contact. Short, introductory, pieces to the account itself offer glimpses of the region and period, including piracy, trade and the introduction of firearms into Japan.

A major translation into English of the travel memoirs of Hanna Diyab, the man credited with telling the story of 'Aladdin' to Antoine Galland - himself the first European translator of 'One Thousand and One Nights' - in 1709, in Paris.