Book announcement
Van de Bosporus naar de Zuiderzee
by Gaspard baron Testa
edited and published by Mehmet Tutuncu
TRAVEL BOOK OF A COLORFUL COMPANY OF 9 PEOPLE WRITTEN BY GASPARD TESTA
INTERPRETER OF THE DUTCH EMBASSY IN ISTANBUL (CONSTANTINOPLE) in 1793
an ambassador, his wife, his son his interpreter, an Anabaptist widow whose husband
Istanbul has been murdered, a scientist who deciphered hieroglyphs for the first time, a
merchant, a professor and another unknown person travel by stagecoach together for 3 months
in war-torn Europe.
It is 1793. Frederik Van Dedem leaves with a group of nine people