JEAN BAPTISTE TAVERNIER was a Sindbad of the seventeenth century. To an insatiable love of travel, which prompted him even in his boyhood to rove through the greater part of Europe, and in his ...

Tavernier came from a Protestant family of engravers and geographers based in Paris. Drawn to the East, he is best known for discovering the Hope Diamond.

Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, the French voyager, set sail for India in the 15th century and arrived in Hyderabad and recorded its unique culture, art and architecture in his Travels in India.

JEAN BAPTISTE TAVERNIER, in his “Travels in India” (translated by V. Ball, 1889, vol. ii. p. 397), mentions a case similar to what Mr. Crawshay describes under this heading in your last number ...

The book entitled 'Les Six Voyages de Jean Baptiste Tavernier' was discovered at Abbey Books in pristine condition and details the world during the 17th century.

Jean-Baptiste Tavernier was a notorious hedonist and a spy who romanced princesses from Persia and wrote obscure travel books. He was not only a diamond merchant, he was the pioneer of the diamond ...

It is in the journeys of French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier that we get a fuller picture of the nature of trade links and the travel conditions in the region. Landing in Machilipatnam from ...