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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah (Paperback)
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor, Volume 2
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The British explorer Sir Richard F. Burton (1821 90) was a
colourful and often controversial character. A talented linguist
and keen ethnologist, he worked in India during the 1840s as an
interpreter and intelligence officer for General Sir Charles
Napier, and published several books about his experiences in 1851
2. He first gained celebrity, however, for his adventurous 1853
trip to Mecca, under the disguise of a pilgrim, which is described
in this lively three-volume publication (1855 6). Few Europeans had
ever visited the Muslim holy places; one of them was John Lewis
Burckhardt, whose 1829 account is also reissued in this series.
Volume 2 of Burton's book vividly describes the heat and dangers of
the journey to Medina, the behaviour and conversation of the
pilgrims from many different tribes and nations, and the mosques,
tombs and other sights of the bustling city, complete with traders
and beggars.
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