sentences:  Kateřiny v Pusté Arábii" (literally "Journey from Bohemia to Venice, from here to the Holy Land, Judea and to Egypt, later to Oreb, Sinai and St. Catherine mountain in desert Arabia").The book is probably the first published account of the Near East by a Czech traveller.Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic (1564–1621) was a renaissance man with a broad range of interests.