{"product_id":"the-book-of-travels-volume-one-9781479892303","title":"The Book of Travels: Volume One","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe adventures of the man who created Aladdin\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book of Travels\u003c\/i\u003e is Ḥannā Diyāb's remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of Versailles and back again, which forever linked him to one of the most popular pieces of world literature, the \u003ci\u003eThousand and One Nights\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDiyāb, a Maronite Christian, served as a guide and interpreter for the French naturalist and antiquarian Paul Lucas. Between 1706 and 1716, Diyāb and Lucas traveled through Syria, Cyprus, Egypt, Tripolitania, Tunis, Italy, and France. In Paris, Ḥannā Diyāb met Antoine Galland, who added to his wildly popular translation of the \u003ci\u003eThousand and One Nights\u003c\/i\u003e several tales related by Diyāb, including \"Aladdin\" and \"Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.\" When Lucas failed to make good on his promise of a position for Diyāb at Louis XIV's Royal Library, Diyāb returned to Aleppo. In his old age, he wrote this engaging account of his youthful adventures, from capture by pirates in the Mediterranean to quack medicine and near-death experiences. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslated into English for the first time, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Travels \u003c\/i\u003eintroduces readers to the young Syrian responsible for some of the most beloved stories from the\u003ci\u003e Thousand and One Nights\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA bilingual Arabic-English edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eḤannā Diyāb (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eḤannā Diyāb\u003c\/b\u003e (b. ca. 1687) was a Syrian traveler originally from Aleppo. He is best known for his contributions to Antoine Galland's translation of the \u003ci\u003eThousand and One Nights\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohannes Stephan (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJohannes Stephan\u003c\/b\u003e is a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC-funded project \u003ci\u003eKalīlah and Dimnah\u003c\/i\u003e--AnonymClassic at the Freie Universität Berlin. He studied Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies in Halle an der Saale, Damascus, and Bern. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eYasmine Seale (Foreword by) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eYasmine Seale\u003c\/b\u003e translates from Arabic and French. Her essays on books and art have appeared in \u003ci\u003eHarper's, The Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTLS, \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere. She is the translator of \u003ci\u003eThe Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAladdin: A New Translation.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eElias Muhanna (Translator) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eElias Muhanna\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe World in a Book: al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition \u003c\/i\u003eand translator of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Nuwayrī's fourteenth-century Arabic compendium \u003ci\u003eThe Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition\u003c\/i\u003e, which was chosen as a \"Best Book of 2016\" by NPR and \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Digital Humanities and Islamic \u0026amp; Middle East Studies\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50557528408338,"sku":"9781479892303","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2fab91ee-cff5-44fa-aabc-8ddc2bb7f5c8.jpg?v=1731785506","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-book-of-travels-volume-one-9781479892303","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}