Author: Carsten NiebuhrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Travels Through Arabia and Other Countries in the East
Author: Carsten NiebuhrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Travels Through Arabia and Other Countries in the East
Author: Carsten NiebuhrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Travels Through Arabia
Author: Carsten NiebuhrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Travels, Explorations and Empires, 1770-1835, Part I Vol 4
Author: Tim FulfordPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000559890
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
A collection of work that attempts to reflect the diversity of travel literature from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This literature often reveals something of the cultural and gender difference of the travellers, as well as ideas on colonialism, anthropology and slavery.
Travels in Arabia
Author: Bayard TaylorArabia Felix
Author: Thorkild HansenPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681370735
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Discover the riveting true story of the 18th-century expedition that left only one survivor in this lost classic of adventure and travel writing—with 33 drawings and maps. Arabia Felix is the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gone disastrously awry. On a winter morning in 1761 6 men leave Copenhagen by sea—a botanist, a philologist, an astronomer, a doctor, an artist, and their manservant—an ill-assorted band of men who dislike and distrust one another from the start. These are the members of the Danish expedition to Arabia Felix, as Yemen was then known, the first organized foray into a corner of the world unknown to Europeans. The expedition made its way to Turkey and Egypt, by which time its members were already actively seeking to undercut and even kill one another, before disappearing into the harsh desert that was their destination. Nearly 7 years later a single survivor returned to Denmark to find himself forgotten and all the specimens that had been sent back ruined by neglect. Based on diaries, notebooks, and sketches that lay unread in Danish archives until the twentieth century, Arabia Felix is a tale of intellectual rivalry and a comedy of very bad manners, as well as an utterly absorbing adventure.
Goethe and the Poets of Arabia
Author: Katharina MommsenPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1571139087
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
A comprehensive account of Goethe's relationship to Arabian culture, mediated by his interest in certain poets and texts and by his highly nuanced attitude toward Islam.
Catalogue of the York Gate Library Formed by S. William Silver
Author: Stephen William SilverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
The Blood-red Arab Flag
Author: Charles E. DaviesPublisher: University of Exeter Press
ISBN: 9780859895095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
During the years 1797-1820 the Qasimi Arabs or Qawasim, inhabitants of the present day United Arab Emirates, acquired an enduring reputation as ruthless pirates. Some of their victims flew the British flag, and thus their actions were to provide the initial stimulus and justification for 150 years of British involvement in the Gulf. Recently, however, it has been doubted whether the Qawasim were in fact pirates. In a scholarly but accessible account founded on contemporary sources, illustrated with testimonies of eye-witnesses and participants, this book sets out to decide this controversial question. By making use of valuable and hitherto untapped archival material, Charles Davies strongly evokes a flavour of life in the Gulf in this turbulent and formative period in the Gulf's history. This book represents the first in-depth investigation into this controversial subject. It is based on original research and and helps to explain why the Gulf is as it is today.
Women's Travel Writings in North Africa and the Middle East, Part II vol 4
Author: Betty HagglundPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000557715
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1680
Book Description
Part II of this edition reproduces The Tour of Africa, first published in 1821 by Catherine Hutton. Although framed as a first-person narrative, the three-volume work is in fact a compilation of existing travel accounts. Hutton’s Tour raises challenging questions about intertextuality in nineteenth-century women’s travel writing.