Evliyâ Çelebi Studies and Essays Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of His Birth

Evliyâ Çelebi arouses great interest because of his life devoted to travel and his gift as a writer. Born and bred in Istanbul, he was a passionate traveler who made journeys from Central Europe to Iran, from Ukraine to Sudan, from famous cities known as "Golden Apple" as far as ports in Somalia whose very names no one had heard