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Introduction 7
Literary allusions 23
Glossary 27
Volume 1 Istanbul
1 Introduction: The dream 3
2 The Süleymaniye Mosque 8
3 The antiquity of smoking 17
4 Galata 17
5 Kagithane 21
6 Guilds' parade 24
7 Lagari Hasan Çelebi 31
Volume 2 Anatolia and beyond
1 Setting out 35
2 Hot Springs of Bursa 38
3 Return to Istanbul 42
4 Hamsi in Trabzon 44
5 Black Sea adventure 47
6 Tabriz 55
7 Cat-brokers of Ardabil 68
8 Oil wells of Baku 68
9 Cathedral of Echmiadzin 69
10 Ankara 70
Volume 3 In the Retinue of Melek Ahmed Pasha
1 Nasreddin Hoca in Aksehir 91
2 Safed 92
3 Sheikh Bekkar the Naked on the road outside Damascus 94
4 The girl who gave birth to an elephant 97
5 Armenian 99
6 The cats of Divrigi 100
7 Witchcraft in a Bulgarian village 101
8 Sofia 102
Volume 4 Safavid Borderlands
1 Diyarbekir 113
2 Bitlis 116
3 The ruined city of Ahlat 134
4 On 'extinguishing the candle' 136
Volume 5 East Anatolia and the Balkans
1 Highwaymen in the Bolu Pass; return to Van 141
2 Escape from Bitlis 142
3 Diplomacy in Split (Spalato) 163
4 The bandit Yano 169
Volume 6 Hungary and the German Campaign
1 An incident on the battlefield 173
2 Shkodër (Scutari) 174
3 The Samakov iron works 180
4 An adventure near Komorn; Tatar raid into Western Europe 181
5 Dubrovnik (Ragusa) 204
6 The great bridge at Mostar 213
Volume 7 Habsburg Borderlands, Crimea and beyond
1 Raiding expeditions in 'Germany'; a fabulous tree in Krokondar 219
2 The battle on the Raab River (Battle of Saint Gotthard, 1664) 222
3 Comparison of Austrians and Hungarians 230
4 A pleasure resort near Vienna; the free conduct of women 231
5 Vienna 232
6 Crimea 249
7 A meal of strange honey in Circassia 253
8 Kalmyks and cannibalism 254
Volume 8 Greece and the Conquest of Crete
1 Return to Crimea 259
2 Report to the Sultan in Edirne 274
3 The Gypsies of Gümülcine (Komotini) 276
4 Athens 278
5 Balibadra: A great cypress tree and the five ethnic groups of the Morea 293
6 Siege of Candia: Ministrations to the wounded and Saint Green-Arm 295
7 A captive woman in Kolorya 297
8 Fair at Doyran 298
Volume 9 Pilgrimage
1 Setting out on the Hajj 303
2 Brigands at the Alman Pass; Ephesus 306
3 Safed and the land of Canaan 311
4 Jerusalem 315
5 Sheikh Bekkar the Naked in Damascus 338
6 The Hajj caravan; Muzayrib, the Hajj bazaar 340
7 Medina 345
8 The People of Mecca 359
9 Uyun al-qasab 362
10 St Catherine's Monastery on Mt Sinai 365
Volume 10 Egypt and Sudan
1 Adam's prayer for Egypt in 'Hebrew' 371
2 Relation among Nile overflow, plenty and poverty, crowdedness of Cairo, people and donkeys 372
3 Snake medicine and snake charming 373
4 Rain, snow and hail in Egypt in 1083 (1672) 387
5 Crocodiles 388
6 The Cairo underworld and unusual trades 393
7 Trades and products lacking in Egypt 399
8 Chicken incubation; Sabil Allam stones 400
9 Exploring a pyramid 403
10 Weddings, circumcision, etc. 406
11 Mevlud of Seyyid Ahmad al-Badawi in Tanta 414
12 Mountain of the Birds 436
13 Map of the Nile 439
14 Meeting with Kör Husayn Qan 439
15 Meeting with Qan Girgis; encounter with two Bektashi dervishes 442
16 Elephants and monkeys 448
17 Envoi 450
Appendix: Outline of Journeys and Events in the Ten Volumes of the Book of Travels 453
Bibliography 472
Acknowledgements 477
Index 479
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