Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Volume One
Impelled by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure and aided by an extraordinary facility in Eastern languages, Sir Richard Burton (1821-90) was one of the great traveler-explorers of history. He was the first European to enter the capital of Somaliland and the first to discover the Great Lakes of Central Africa. He was also an Orientalist of the first rank.But it is for his pilgrimage in 1853 to Mecca and Medina and the most sacrosanct shrines of Islam that Burton is best known — and for his celebrated book that recorded his experiences during the journey. Successfully posing as a wandering dervish, he gained admittance to the holy Kaabah an…
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- ISBN: 978-0-486-12309-7
- EAN: 0800759123094
- Produktnummer: 20501979
- Verlag: Guilford Publications
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 468 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'496 KB
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