Travels In Arabia
- 392 pages
- 14 hours of reading
In 1809, John Lewis Burckhardt disguised himself as an Arab and traveled to sites forbidden to Westerners. His travel diary is rich in ethnographic, cultural, geographic, and political observations.
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Johann Ludwig Burckhardt was a Swiss/English traveller and orientalist whose writings were conducted in French. He is primarily celebrated for rediscovering the ruins of Petra in Jordan. During his time in Syria, Burckhardt undertook numerous exploratory journeys, including visits to Palmyra and Damascus. Unwilling to rest on these significant discoveries, he pursued his original ambition to find the source of the River Niger. After extensive travels through Egypt, Nubia, and Arabia, including a pilgrimage to Mecca, he returned to Cairo in a state of extreme exhaustion. Burckhardt meticulously sent his journals and notes to England, ensuring that few details of his journeys were lost. He bequeathed his collection of 800 volumes of Oriental manuscripts to the University of Cambridge.
- 2004
- 1990
Arabic Proverbs
- 296 pages
- 11 hours of reading
First published in 1830, is a collection of proverbial sayings, originally compiled by Sheref Addin Ibn Asad, in Cairo, at the beginning of the 18th century. Burkhardt translated these sayings in hope that they might 'interest and gratify the Orientalist'.