John Lewis Burckhardt

Travels in Syria and the Holy Land

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Burckhardt's journals reveal nineteenth-century 'Arabian life and manners in every degree, from the Bedouin camp to the populous city'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 720
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 297mm x 210mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1834g
• ISBN-13: 9781108069588
• ISBN-10: 1108069584
• Artikelnr.: 33875719

Inhaltsangabe

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.