HABERLAND, DETLEF - Engelbert Kaempfer - 1651-1716: A Biography

The British Library, London. 1996, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0712345035). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 16 x 24.5 Kg. 0.5 Kg.; 158 pages with a few black and white illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the dust jacket, spine and back cover. Wear marks on the front cover and back cover. Interior as new. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; Translated from the German edition by Peter Hogg.: Engelbert Kaempfer was one of the most extraordinary men of his age. Scientist, physician, linguist, artist, he is best known today as an early traveller in Japanm whose history of that country was many times reprinted and was required reading for travellers to the East for so many decades. Kaempfer left an enourmous amount of manuscripts, drawings and objects, which Sir Hans Sloane acquired at the beginning of the eighteenth century and made available to a sholarly public by incorporating them in his great collection, which was to form the basis of the British Museum. The most extensive literary remains of any seventeenth-century traveller were thus preserved and are today one of the treasures of the British Library's manuscript collections. Kaempfer's life now seems remote from us in two respects: the period during which he lived has became alien and in part unintelligible to us, and the exotic cultures of the countries through which he voyaged no longer exist in the form in which he experienced them. However, as Dr Haberland reveals in this scholarly account, which is based on an exhaustive study of the original sources, the life story of such a man can reveal a great deal about the culture and society in which he lived, doubly so in case of someone so curious and communicative about the wider world in which he travelled. Dr.Haberland's award-wining biography, first published in German in 1990, has been extensively revised and updated for the first English Edition. Good/Dust Jacket Included.

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