Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land
Perhaps the first modern travelogues still to capture the imaginations of armchair explorers, the mid-19th-century bestselling books of American diplomat and writer JOHN LLOYD STEPHENS (1805-1852) reads like the most inspired of novels. The poetic immediacy places the reader square in the saddle of adventure. In this classic 1837 work-which a critic like Edgar Allan Poe praised for its freshness of manner evincing manliness of feeling-Stephens takes the reader on an evocative journey through the Middle East, from a visit to the pyramids of Egypt to encounters with enthusiastic locals and much more.…
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- ISBN: 978-1-61640-506-9
- EAN: 9781616405069
- Produktnummer: 11086382
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 512 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.9 cm 676 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 676
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