John Bell (1691 1780) trained as a physician, but preferred a life of travel and diplomacy. He entered the service of Tsar Peter the Great of Russia, and had already taken part (as the expedition's do ...Celý popis
John Bell (1691 1780) trained as a physician, but preferred a life of travel and diplomacy. He entered the service of Tsar Peter the Great of Russia, and had already taken part (as the expedition's doctor) in a government mission to Persia in 1715 18 when he was asked to join a further embassy to China. This two-volume work, published in 1763, describes both these journeys. Volume 2 takes up the story with the embassy's reception in Beijing, with accounts of the Chinese emperor and his court, and the return journey. It also includes the journal of Lorenz Lange (c.1690 1752), a Swede in Russian service who was an agent at the court of Beijing at the time of Bell's own mission, and short accounts of Bell's later visits to Derbent on the Caspian Sea, and to Constantinople. This is a delightful account of an area then hardly known in the west."
Prečo nakupovať na Enbooku?
VEĽKÝ VÝBER
Ponúkame milióny kníh v angličtine. Od beletrie až po tie najodbornejšie odborné.
POŠTOVNÉ ZADARMO
Poštovné už od 2,99 € a pri objednávke nad 60 € doprava na pobočku Zásielkovne zadarmo
SKVELÉ CENY
Ceny kníh sa snažíme držať pri zemi a vždy pod cenou odporúčanou vydavateľom, aby si ich mohol kúpiť naozaj každý.
OVERENÉ ZÁKAZNÍKMI
Získali sme certifikát "Overené zákazníkmi" na Heureka.sk. Prezrite si naše recenzie
ONLINE PODPORA
Môžete využiť online chat, email alebo nám zatelefonovať.