Charles Montagu Doughty, Doughty Charles Montagu

Travels in Arabia Deserta - Volume 1

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Produktbeschreibung

The first of two volumes of Charles Doughty's classic account of travels in Arabia in the late nineteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 668
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1068g
• ISBN-13: 9781108009461
• ISBN-10: 1108009468
• Artikelnr.: 28985875

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The Peraea
2. The mountains of Edom
3. The haj journeying in Arabia
4. Medain Salih
5. Medain Salih and El-Ally
6. El-Ally, El-Khreyby, Medain
Appendix to ch. 4, 5 and 6
7. Return of the haj
8. The nomad life in the desert
9. Life in the wandering village
10. The nomads in the desert
11. The Fukara wandering as fugitives in another dira
12. Peace in the desert
13. Medain revisited
14. Wandering upon the Harra with the Moahib
15. Nomad life upon the Harra
16. The Aarab forsake the Harra
17. The Moahib summer camp in Wady Thirba
18. The Fukara summering at El-Hejr
19. Teyma
20. The date harvest
21. The Jebel
22. Hayil
Appendix to Volume 1.