Author: Richard Francis BurtonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336836247X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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The Land of Midian; Revisited, in Two Volumes
Author: Richard Francis BurtonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336836247X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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The Land of Midian; Revisited, in Two Volumes
Author: Richard Francis BurtonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387062478
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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The Land of Midian; Revisited, in Two Volumes
Author: Richard Francis BurtonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336836250X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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The Land of Midian, Revisited, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Richard F. BurtonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781332267484
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Excerpt from The Land of Midian, Revisited, Vol. 2 of 2 At nine am. We turned abruptly eastward up the vvady cl-sulaysalah, whose head falls sharply from the Shafah range. The surface is still Hisma ground, red sand with blocks of ruddy grit, washed down from the plateau on the left; and, according to Furayj, it forms the south-western limit of Me Harrah. The valley is honeycombed into man traps by rats and lizards, causing many a tumble, and notably developing the mulish instinct. We then crossed a rough and rocky divide, Amez'ee a Majni, or, as the Bedawin here pronounce it, a which takes its name from the tor mented Ruways ridge on the right. After a hot, The word is explained in my Itineraries, part ii. Sect. 3. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Land of Midian (Revisited) - Volume 2
Author: Burton Richard Francis SirPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318778454
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Languages : en
Pages : 298
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The Land of Midian (Revisited) - Volume 1
Author: Burton Richard Francis SirPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318778430
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Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Land of Midian (Revisited). in 2 Vols
Author: Richard F. BurtonThe Land of Midian. Revisited
Author: R. F. BurtonThe Land of Midian (Revisited) (Annotated)
Author: Richard Francis Burton, SirPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530876068
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Languages : en
Pages : 314
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A few pages by way of "Forespeache." The plain unvarnished tale of the travel in Midian, undertaken by the second Expedition, which, like the first, owes all to the liberality and the foresight of his Highness Ismail I., Khediv of Egypt, forms the subject of these volumes. During the four months between December 19, 1877, and April 20, 1878, the officers employed covered some 2500 miles by sea and land, of which 600, not including by-paths, were mapped and planned; and we brought back details of an old-new land which the civilized world had clean forgotten. The public will now understand that one and the same subject has not given rise to two books. I have to acknowledge with gratitude the many able and kindly notices by the Press of my first volume ("The Gold Mines of Midian," etc. Messrs. C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1878). But some reviewers succeeded in completely misunderstanding the drift of that avant courier. It was an introduction intended to serve as a base for the present more extensive work, and-foundations intended to bear weight must be solid. Its object was to place before the reader the broad outlines of a country whose name was known to "every schoolboy," whilst it was a vox et praeterea nihil, even to the learned, before the spring of 1877. I had judged advisable to sketch, with the able assistance of learned friends, its history and geography; its ethnology and archaeology; its zoology and malacology; its botany and geology. The drift was to prepare those who take an interest in Arabia generally, and especially in wild mysterious Midian, for the present work, which, one foresaw, would be a tale of discovery and adventure. Thus readers of "The Land of Midian (Revisited)" may feel that they are not standing upon ground utterly unknown; and the second publication is shortened and lightened-perhaps the greatest advantage of all-by the prolegomena having been presented in the first. The purpose of the last Expedition was to conclude the labours begun, during the spring of 1877, in a mining country unknown, or rather, fallen into oblivion. Hence its primary "objective" was mineralogical. The twenty-five tons of specimens, brought back to Cairo, were inspected by good judges from South Africa, Australia, and California; and all recognized familiar metalliferous rocks. The collection enabled me to distribute the mining industry into two great branches-(1) the rich silicates and carbonates of copper smelted by the Ancients in North Midian; and (2) the auriferous veins worked, but not worked out, by comparatively modern races in South Midian, the region lying below the parallel of El-Muwaylah. It is, indeed, still my conviction that "tailings" have been washed for gold, even by men still living. We also brought notices and specimens of three several deposits of sulphur; of a turquoise-mine behind Ziba; of salt and saltpetre, and of vast deposits of gypsum. These are sources of wealth which the nineteenth century is not likely to leave wasted and unworked. In geography the principal novelties are the identification of certain ruined cities mentioned by Ptolemy, and the "Harrahs" or plutonic centres scattered over the seaboard and the interior. I venture to solicit the attention of experts for my notes on El-Harrah, that great volcanic chain whose fair proportions have been so much mutilated by its only explorer, the late Dr. Wallin. Beginning with Damascan Trachonitis, and situated, in the parallel of north lat. 28 degrees, about sixty direct miles east of the Red Sea, it is reported to subtend the whole coast of North-Western Arabia, between El-Muwaylah (north lat. 27 degrees 39') and El-Yambu' (north lat. 24 degrees 5'). Equally noticeable are the items of information concerning the Wady Hamz, the "Land's End" of Egypt, and the most important feature of its kind in North-Western Arabia.
The Land of Midian (Revisited) - Volume 2
Author: Richard Francis Sir BurtonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781986328708
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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The Land of Midian (Revisited) - Volume 2 by Richard Francis Sir Burton is a rare manuscript, the original residing in some of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers of the Valley's mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life.