Author: Richard Francis Burton
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1785
Book Description
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah is the first detailed and informative account of hajj pilgrimage from the eyes of a western explorer and ethnographer. Spread over 3 volumes it is a well-documented journey to Mecca in disguise and provides a thorough insight into the lives and customs of the Arab world. This edition includes: Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah (In 3 Vols.) Biography and Further Readings: Life of Sir Richard Burton by Thomas Wright Romance of Isabel Lady Burton: The Story of Her Life (Vol.1&2) Arabian Society in the Middle Ages Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah (Vol.1-3)
Author: Richard Francis Burton
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1785
Book Description
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah is the first detailed and informative account of hajj pilgrimage from the eyes of a western explorer and ethnographer. Spread over 3 volumes it is a well-documented journey to Mecca in disguise and provides a thorough insight into the lives and customs of the Arab world. This edition includes: Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah (In 3 Vols.) Biography and Further Readings: Life of Sir Richard Burton by Thomas Wright Romance of Isabel Lady Burton: The Story of Her Life (Vol.1&2) Arabian Society in the Middle Ages Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1785
Book Description
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah is the first detailed and informative account of hajj pilgrimage from the eyes of a western explorer and ethnographer. Spread over 3 volumes it is a well-documented journey to Mecca in disguise and provides a thorough insight into the lives and customs of the Arab world. This edition includes: Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah (In 3 Vols.) Biography and Further Readings: Life of Sir Richard Burton by Thomas Wright Romance of Isabel Lady Burton: The Story of Her Life (Vol.1&2) Arabian Society in the Middle Ages Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Volume 1
Author: Richard F. Burton
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666769355
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666769355
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah
Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah
Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Posing as a wandering dervish, Burton gained admittance to the holy Kaabah and to the tomb of the prophet at Medina and participated in all the rituals of the Hadj (pilgrimage).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Posing as a wandering dervish, Burton gained admittance to the holy Kaabah and to the tomb of the prophet at Medina and participated in all the rituals of the Hadj (pilgrimage).
Passing
Author: Lipika Pelham
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1787386198
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A slave woman in 1840s America dresses as a white, disabled man to escape to freedom, while a twenty-first-century black rights activist is 'cancelled' for denying her whiteness. A Victorian explorer disguises himself as a Muslim in Arabia's forbidden holy city. A trans man claiming to have been assigned male at birth is exposed and murdered by bigots in 1993. Today, Japanese untouchables leave home and change their name. All of them have "passed," performing or claiming an identity that society hasn't assigned or recognized as theirs. For as long as we've drawn lines describing ourselves and each other, people have naturally fallen or deliberately stepped between them. What do their stories--in life and in art--tell us about the changing meanings of identity? About our need for labels, despite their obvious limitations? Lipika Pelham reflects on tales of fluidity and transformation, including her own. From Pope Joan to Parasite, Brazil to Bangladesh, London to Liberia, Passing is a fascinating, timely history of the self.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1787386198
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A slave woman in 1840s America dresses as a white, disabled man to escape to freedom, while a twenty-first-century black rights activist is 'cancelled' for denying her whiteness. A Victorian explorer disguises himself as a Muslim in Arabia's forbidden holy city. A trans man claiming to have been assigned male at birth is exposed and murdered by bigots in 1993. Today, Japanese untouchables leave home and change their name. All of them have "passed," performing or claiming an identity that society hasn't assigned or recognized as theirs. For as long as we've drawn lines describing ourselves and each other, people have naturally fallen or deliberately stepped between them. What do their stories--in life and in art--tell us about the changing meanings of identity? About our need for labels, despite their obvious limitations? Lipika Pelham reflects on tales of fluidity and transformation, including her own. From Pope Joan to Parasite, Brazil to Bangladesh, London to Liberia, Passing is a fascinating, timely history of the self.
Literature of Travel and Exploration
Author: Jennifer Speake
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135456631
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1425
Book Description
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135456631
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1425
Book Description
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
The Gold-Mines of Midian
Author: Richard F. Burton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486287394
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
A fascinating chronicle of Burton's 1877 expedition to locate gold and other valuable metals in the Arabian peninsula.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486287394
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
A fascinating chronicle of Burton's 1877 expedition to locate gold and other valuable metals in the Arabian peninsula.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol 1
Author: John L. Stephens
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486209265
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Volume 1 of 2-volume set. Classic (1843) exploration of jungles of Yucatan, looking for evidences of Maya civilization. Extensive accounts of 44 Maya sites as well as of Yucatan folkways, manners, dress, ceremonies, amusements — all of which makes this a great travel book. Total in set: 127 engravings. 1 map.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486209265
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Volume 1 of 2-volume set. Classic (1843) exploration of jungles of Yucatan, looking for evidences of Maya civilization. Extensive accounts of 44 Maya sites as well as of Yucatan folkways, manners, dress, ceremonies, amusements — all of which makes this a great travel book. Total in set: 127 engravings. 1 map.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina
Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description