John Lewis Burckhardt (1784 1817) was a Swiss explorer who is best
remembered for his rediscovery of the ancient city of Petra in
modern Jordan. In 1809 he was commissioned by the African
Association to discover the source of the River Niger. Posing as a
Muslim convert, Burckhardt spent two years exploring and studying
Arabic and Islamic law in Aleppo, before travelling widely in
Arabia and Egypt This volume, first published posthumously in 1819,
contains Burckhardt's account of his two visits to Nubia (modern
Upper Egypt and Sudan) in 1813 and 1814. Burckhardt was the first
western scholar to explore the Sudanese Nile valley, and one of the
first western explorers successfully to cross the Nubian Desert. In
this valuable volume, he describes in fascinating detail the many
ancient ruins along the Nile and the logistics and hardships of his
desert crossing.
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