Pınar Emiralioğlu, Geographical Knowledge and Imperial Culture in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, 2014

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Öz India, Indian Ocean and the New World. Emiralioğlu analyzes Seydi Ali Reis’s work and those of a few other Ottoman geographers to show the little interest given by Ottoman court and elites to these areas. By examining Seydi Reis’s Kitab-ı Muhit (The Book of Ocean), Mirat-ül Memalik (The Mirror of Lands), Tarih-i Hind-i Garbî (The History of the West Indies) of an anonymous writer