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Jean-Baptiste Tavernier ( 1605 in Parijs – juli 1689 in Moskou ), Baron de Aubonne (1670-1685) was een Frans ontdekkingsreiziger en juwelier. Hij is bekend gebleven omdat hij publiceerde over zijn zes lange reizen in Azië en vanuit India bijzondere edelstenen naar Europa bracht. Zijn vader Gabriel was een handelaar in landkaarten uit ...
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier ( Parigi, 1605 – Mosca, luglio 1689) è stato un viaggiatore e mercante francese, pioniere dei commerci tra la Francia e l' India . Si stima che in sei viaggi nell'arco di 40 anni percorse oltre 200.000 km.
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-89) was one of the most renowned travelers of 17th century Europe. The son of a French Protestant who had fled Antwerp to escape religious persecution, Tavernier was a jewel merchant who between 1632 and 1668 made six voyages to the East. The countries he visited (most more than once) included present-day Cyprus, Malta, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan ...
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-89) was one of the most renowned travelers of 17th century Europe. The son of a French Protestant who had fled Antwerp to escape religious persecution, Tavernier was a jewel merchant who between 1632 and 1668 made six voyages to the East. The countries he visited (most more than once) included present-day Cyprus, Malta, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan ...
10 de may. de 2012 · Travels in India. In 1676, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-89), French merchant, traveller and pioneer of trade with India, published an account of his journey through India. This two-volume translation, published in 1889 by Irish geologist Valentine Ball (1843-94), includes a biographical sketch of the author, notes and appendices.
Hace 4 días · Jean-Baptiste Tavernier was a merchant, a dealer in gems, a man largely overlooked in the annals of a turbulent period, but surely one of the more interesting figures of his century. The Taverniers were a Protestant family of petty bourgeois background who moved to Paris from Flanders toward the end of the sixteenth century.
25 de may. de 2008 · Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
