Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah
Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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First Footsteps in East Africa, Or, An Exploration of Harar
Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
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Category : Harar, Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Category : Harar, Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
To the Holy Shrines
Author: Richard Burton
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141025387
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
'Great Journeys' allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries and also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. It describes great civilisations, walls of ice, violent jungles, deserts and mountains and multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. This title is a classic in 19th century exploration of Arabian culture.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141025387
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
'Great Journeys' allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries and also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. It describes great civilisations, walls of ice, violent jungles, deserts and mountains and multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. This title is a classic in 19th century exploration of Arabian culture.
Sir Richard Burton's Travels in Arabia and Africa
Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher: Huntington Library Press
ISBN: 9780873282093
Category : Benin
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
FROM REVIEWS OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION: "Burton's own narratives...are classics of travel. Best known is the account of his journey to Medina and Mecca, closed to non-Muslims.... As Hayman observes, [Burton] reveals his volatile temper as well as his amazing capacity to assimilate information which must have been retained in his head, as no writing was permitted."--"History Today "Burton's lectures...give the full flavor of both his fierce temperament and his fiercer curiosity."--"Los Angeles Times
Publisher: Huntington Library Press
ISBN: 9780873282093
Category : Benin
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
FROM REVIEWS OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION: "Burton's own narratives...are classics of travel. Best known is the account of his journey to Medina and Mecca, closed to non-Muslims.... As Hayman observes, [Burton] reveals his volatile temper as well as his amazing capacity to assimilate information which must have been retained in his head, as no writing was permitted."--"History Today "Burton's lectures...give the full flavor of both his fierce temperament and his fiercer curiosity."--"Los Angeles Times
The Collector of Worlds
Author: Ilija Trojanow
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061351938
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
This fictionalized account imagines the life of Sir Richard Francis Burton--a 19th-century British colonial officer and translator with a rare ability to assimilate into indigenous cultures.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061351938
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
This fictionalized account imagines the life of Sir Richard Francis Burton--a 19th-century British colonial officer and translator with a rare ability to assimilate into indigenous cultures.
The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam
Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
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Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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The Gold-mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities
Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher:
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Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Publisher:
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Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Burton
Author: Byron Farwell
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The man who searched for the source of the Nile, became the first non-Moslem to visit Mecca, and translated the Arabian nights, among other adventures.
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The man who searched for the source of the Nile, became the first non-Moslem to visit Mecca, and translated the Arabian nights, among other adventures.
The Life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton
Author: Lady Isabel Burton
Publisher:
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Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah
Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description