Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah

By:

Richard Francis Burton

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor

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The British explorer Sir Richard F. Burton (1821–90) was a colourful and often controversial character. A talented linguist and keen ethnologist, he worked in India during the 1840s as an interpreter and intelligence officer for General Sir Charles Napier, and published several books about his experiences in 1851–2. He first gained celebrity, however, for his adventurous 1853 trip to Mecca, under the disguise of a pilgrim, which is described in this lively three-volume publication (1855–6). Few Europeans had ever visited the Muslim holy places; one of them was John Lewis Burckhardt, whose 1829 account is also reissued in this series. Volume 1 of Burton's book describes his arrival in Egypt, the weeks he spent in Alexandria and Cairo polishing his linguistic and cultural skills, and how, at the end of Ramadan, he travelled to Suez by camel, and from there by boat to Yanbu al-Bahr.

Release date NZ

December 29th, 2011

Author

Richard Francis Burton

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

2 Plates, color; 1 Plates, black and white; 1 Maps

Pages

418

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor

Dimensions

140x216x24

ISBN-13

9781108041980

Product ID

19460207

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