Travels in Arabia Deserta - Volume 2

Informationen zum Autor CHARLES MONTAGU DOUGHTY (1843-1926) was an English poet and writer born in Theberton Hall! Saxmundham! Suffolk. He attended King's College London and graduated from Gonville and Caius College! Cambridge in 1864. Among this author's works are an epic poem in six volumes titled The Dawn in Britain! published in 1906! and his well-known Travels in Arabia Deserta! for which he received much praise. Klappentext The second of two volumes of Charles Doughty's classic account of travels in Arabia in the late nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung Charles Doughty says in his preface to Travels in Arabia Deserta (first published in 1888) that he has tried to 'set forth faithfully some parcel of the soil of Arabia'. This is a classic and justly famous account of an area previously little known to Westerners. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Ibn Rashid's town; 2. Life in Hayil; 3. Depart from Hayil; 4. Kheybar; 5. The Kheyabara; 6. The Medina life at Kheybar; 7. Galla-land; 8. Deliverance from Kheybar; 9. Desert journey to Hayil; 10. The Shammar and Harb deserts in Nejd; 11. Journey to El-Kasim; Appendix to Chapter 11; 12. Aneyza; 13. Life in Aneyza; 14. The Christian stranger driven from Aneyza, and recalled; Appendix to Chapter 14; 15. Wars of Aneyza; 16. Set out from El-Kasim, with the butter caravan from Mecca; 17. Tayif; 18. Wady Fatima; Appendix to Volume 2.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Doughty Charles Montagu, Charles Mon Doughty, Charles Montagu Doughty
• Editore: External catalogues UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 16.03.2010
• EAN: 9781108009478
• ISBN: 978-1-108-00947-8
• Serie: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor; Cambridge Library Collection -; Travels in Arabia Deserta 2 Volume Set; Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor; Travels in Arabia Deserta 2 Volume Set
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Religione: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Viaggi > Reportage di viaggio, racconti di viaggio; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, TRAVEL / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Middle East / Arabian Peninsula, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Middle Eastern history, Arabian Peninsula, Classic Travel Writing