Buy this book on-line FREETH, ZARA & WINSTONE, VICTOR: : Explorers of Arabia - from Renaissance to the Victorian EraLONDON.ALLEN & UNWIN,1978.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.MINT/NMINT.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.
Spine/backstrip of dw/dj slightly faded.
8vo,308pp includes glossary,index+biblio,
b/w illus+maps.
From 16thC to the end of the Victorian era authors have chosen nine of the most varied and colourful of explorers.Ranging from the boastfulness of VARTHEMA and the bravado of BURTON,to the patient suffering
of PITTS,the Devon sailor captured by pirates then forcibly converted to Islam, the scholarly correctness of BURCKHARDT and NIEBUHR,the bluffness of GUARMANI,the Italian horse-coper,the dedicated persistence of DOUGHTY and PALGRAVE,and the aristocratic coolness of LADY ANNE BLUNT.Vividly evoking the dangers encountered,the hardships of their journeys,the bleakness and loneliness of the desert.
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