Travels in Syria and the Holy Land

Klappentext Burckhardt's journals reveal nineteenth-century 'Arabian life and manners in every degree! from the Bedouin camp to the populous city'. Zusammenfassung John Lewis Burckhardt (1784–1817) was an explorer of the Middle East who travelled widely in disguise as a Muslim. This work of 1822 fulfils the promise of 'a view of Arabian life and manners in every degree', and includes Burckhardt's famous account of the ancient city of Petra. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editor's preface W. M. Leake; 1. Journal of a tour from Damascus, in the countries of the Libanus and Anti-Libanus; 2. Journal of an excursion into the Haouran, in the autumn and winter of 1810; 3. Journal of a tour from Aleppo to Damascus, through the valley of the Orontes and Mount Libanus, in February and March, 1812; 4. Journal of a tour from Damascus into the Haouran, and the mountains to the E. and S. E. of the Lake of Tiberias, in the months of April and May, 1812; 5. Description of a journey from Damascus through the mountains of Arabia Petraea and Desert el Ty, to Cairo, in the summer of 1812; 6. Journal of a tour in the peninsula of Mount Sinai, in the spring of 1816; Appendix: 1. An account of the Ryhanlu Turkmans; 2. On the political division of Syria, and the recent changes in the government of Aleppo; 3. The Hadj route from Damascus to Mekka; 4. Description of the route from Boszra in the Haouran, to Djebel Shammor; 5. A route to the eastward of the Castle El Hassa.

Product details

• Authors: John Lewis Burckhardt, Burckhardt John Lewis
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.06.2011
• EAN: 9781108069588
• ISBN: 978-1-108-06958-8
• No. of pages: 720
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, HISTORY / Middle East / General, TRAVEL / Middle East / General, Middle East, Travel writing, Middle Eastern history