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Burton
Burton
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Author: Burton, Richard F.
Title: Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah
Place Published: London
Publisher:George Bell & Sons
Date Published: 1898
Description:


2 volumes. xxx, 436+ 32 ad pp; xii, 479 + 48 ad pp. Illustrated with 46 plates, some colored, including frontispieces with tissue guards plus a folding color map. 18.2x12 cm (7¼x4¾"), maroon cloth, spine lettering in white.



Burton's most famous, and most important, work, being an account of his surreptitious entry into the holy sites of Islam. According to Penzer, and to countless readers since, this is "one of the greatest works of travel ever published." Burton was one of the first westerners to enter the Arab holy cities and to accomplish this he had to assume the character and costume of a Persian Mirza, a wandering Dervish, and a "Pathan" born of Afghan parents. Color map is in six pieces laid in to front of volume 1, some small loss on one piece.

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***AMENDED*** Date is 1893 Faint rubbing to ends of spine and corners of boards; foxing to endpapers and occasional marginal foxing throughout; volumes very good.
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