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Travels in Nubia
by John Lewis Burckhardt, Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa
Chapters
9 totalTRAVELS
TRAVELS IN NUBIA;
MEMOIR, &c.
JOURNEY ALONG THE BANKS OF THE NILE. - FROM ASSOUAN TO MAHASS, ON THE FRONTIERS OF DONGOLA.
DESCRIPTION OF A JOURNEY FROM UPPER EGYPT THROUGH THE DESERTS OF NUBIA TO BERBER AND SUAKIN, AND FROM THENCE TO DJIDDA IN ARABIA.
APPENDIX. No. I.
APPENDIX. No. II.
APPENDIX. No. III.
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en
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~22 hours (1284K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United Kingdom: John Murray, 1819.
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Release date
2023-07-06
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Public domain in the USA.
About the authors
John Lewis Burckhardt
1784–1817
An adventurous scholar who slipped into the Middle East under the name Sheikh Ibrahim, he became famous for bringing Petra and Abu Simbel to wider European attention. His travels mixed nerve, language skill, and close observation in ways that still make his journals compelling.
View all booksAssociation for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa
Created in London in 1788, this influential British society helped spark European exploration of West Africa by backing expeditions in search of the Niger River and Timbuktu. Its published proceedings capture a moment when geography, science, commerce, and imperial ambition were tightly intertwined.
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