Download or read book Desert Traveller written by Katharine Sim and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 2000 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For two and a half years he made Aleppo his home and base while he accustomed himself to Arab dress and customs and mastered the language, often exploring regions as yet unpenetrated by Europeans. As 'Sheik Abraham' he set forth on his first great journey, south through Syria and Palestine and on to Egypt. His reward was the discovery of Petra. His next journey up the Nile into Nubia, going deep into unexplored territory and defying hostile local chiefs, brought him to Abu Simbel. He then embarked on his riskiest journey yet, the trip to Mecca."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Desert Travellers written by Okasha El Daly and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time of the earliest Greek historians, the deserts of Egypt and the Near East have exerted a fascination on travellers. For Herodotus it was the zoological marvels that fascinated him while later explorers found the desert a place to consider their own identities, seeing their reflections in the shifting sands. This book studies the writings of desert travellers, discussing their backgrounds, their discoveries, and the legacy of early accounts that they have left us. Many of the authors presented their work first at meetings of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE). Contents: Part 1: Crocodiles, Pilgrims and Isolated Villages: The Zoology of Herodotus and his Greek Descendants (Charles Foster); Egyptian deserts in Early Medieval Arabic travel writing (Okasha El Daly); Two pilgrims at Saint Catherine's Monastery: Niccolo di Poggibonsi and Christopher Harrant (Anne Wolff); Travellers at Tayyibah: the northern desert of Syria 1600-1980 (Norman Lewis). Part 2: Gold, Ruins and Journeys into the Unknown: The Double Voice of James Bruce, Abyssinian Traveller (Carl Thompson); William Easton, a forgotten American voice (Cassandra Vivian); Giovanni Battista Brocchi, an Italian Scientist in the Near East (Paolo Branca); A la decouverte des mines d'or du desert nubien: LMA Linant de Bellefonds en Etbaye, 1831-1832 (Marcel Kurz et Pascale Linant de Bellefonds); Gold, emeralds and the unknown Ababda (Janet Starkey); Ancient Egypt and the Gordon Relief Expedition (David Dixon). Part 3: A Search for Identity? 'In a position to fathom the Arabs': Ameen Rihani, traveller to the Arab Near East (Geoffrey Nash); Deraa Revisited (John Rodenbeck).
Download or read book The Sahara is Yours a Handbook for Desert Travellers written by Jon Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Desert Route to India Being the Journals of Four Travellers by the Great Desert Caravan Route between Aleppo and Basra 1745 1751 written by Douglas Carruthers and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journals of William Beawes, Gaylard Roberts, Bartholomew Plaisted, and John Carmichael. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1929.
Download or read book Journeys Erased by Time The Rediscovered Footprints of Travellers in Egypt and the Near East written by Neil Cooke and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early travellers in Egypt and the Near East made great contributions to our historical and geographical knowledge and gave us a better understanding of the different peoples, languages and religions of the region. Travellers in this volume are a mixture of rich and poor, bravely adventuring into the unknown, not knowing if would ever return home.
Download or read book Travellers to the Middle East from Burckhardt to Thesiger written by Geoffrey P. Nash and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable compendium of writing on the Middle East including extracts from canonical and less well known travellers’ works.
Download or read book Pious Pilgrims Discerning Travellers Curious Tourists Changing Patterns of Travel to the Middle East from Medieval to Modern Times written by Paul Starkey and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises a varied collection of seventeen papers presented at the biennial conference of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE) held in York in July 2019, which together will provide the reader with a fascinating introduction to travel in and to the Middle East over more than a thousand years.
Download or read book Travellers in Ottoman Lands written by Ines Asceric-Todd and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-07-13 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This splendidly illustrated book focuses on the botanical legacy of many parts of the former Ottoman Empire — including present-day Turkey, the Levant, Egypt, the Balkans, and the Arabian Peninsula — as seen and described by travellers both from within and from outside the region.
Download or read book A New Guide to the Levant for the Use of Travellers in Greece Egypt Palestine Syria and Asia Minor Etc written by T. H. Usborne and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geomorphology in Deserts written by Ronald U. Cooke and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.
Download or read book The Boy Travellers in South America written by Thomas Wallace Knox and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Boy Travellers in South America' follows the journey of Frank Bassett, Fred Bronson, and Doctor Bronson as they explore the length and breadth of the South American continent, from the Isthmus of Panama to the Strait of Magellan. The trio crossed the Andes twice, navigated several of South America's great rivers, and visited its principal cities, all while studying the customs and traditions of the continent's diverse population. Though the characters are fictitious, the descriptions of the continent and its inhabitants are as accurate as possible, drawing on the author's personal knowledge and the narratives of others who have explored the region.
Download or read book River in The Desert written by Paul William Roberts and published by Harvard Common Press. This book was released on 2006-06-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural hub of the Middle East, Egypt is the world's oldest country and home to the world's grandest, most enigmatic monuments. This eloquent observation explores the teeming crossroads of both ancient and modern Egypt, revealing its magnificent, bizarre, and ever-captivating aspects.
Download or read book Travellers Health written by Richard Dawood and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our ability to travel to the remotest parts of the world has been transformed, but the health risks are ever changing and increasing, and there may be no one to help when things go wrong. Whether you are travelling abroad for business or pleasure, this book provides essential, detailed, practical advice for journeys all over the world. This fifth edition is a complete revision of a best-selling, comprehensive and trusted guide. Travellers need to be increasingly well informed about health problems they may encounter abroad. Malaria prevention, the latest vaccine information and advice, cruise ship travel, jet lag, skiing, and accidents and injuries abroad: this book covers every important issue in travel medicine, with the emphasis firmly on self-help and prevention. This new edition brings together state-of-the-art background information and specialist advice from more than 70 leading experts from several countries, now in a more compact format. It is also available in an electronic edition. Travellers' Health is the standard source for the well-prepared traveller.
Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Egypt written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Download or read book The American Travellers Guides written by William Pembroke Fetridge and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travellers Tales written by George Robertson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the future of travelling in a world where boundaries are shifting and dissolving. Amongst the issues covered are politics and identity, history and narration and the representation of other cultures.
Download or read book Harper s Hand book for Travellers in Europe and the East written by William Pembroke Fetridge and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
