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Klappentext Published in 1879, this intricate travelogue through Egypt and Arabia to India illuminates contemporary cultures, politics and landscapes. Zusammenfassung A distinguished and accomplished writer, Lady Isabel Burton (1831–96) published in 1879 a colourful, humorous and intimate observational account of her and her husband's voyage through the Middle East and west of India. Her personal political opinions and colourful cultural descriptions afford unique insight into nineteenth-century world affairs. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. From London through France and Italy; 2. Trieste, and general politics in that quarter; 3. Trieste to Port Said; 4. How cholera spreads; 5. Bombay; 6. The journey to Hyderabad in the Deccan; 7. Hyderabad in the Deccan; 8. Hyderabad; 9. The Nizam diamond; 10. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; 11. Dedicated to the anti-vivisectionists of England; 12. Bombay; 13. The sanitaria of Western India; 14. The hill races and forest men of Western India; 15. We leave Bombay for Goa; 16. The civil and religious history of Goa; 17. The career of St. Francis Xavier; 18. On the inquisition of Goa; 19. A peep into the future of north-western India; 20. We leave India; Appendix.
