Easton Press 6/400 A Pilgrimage To Almadinah And Meccah Sir R F Burton Boxed Set
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We just acquired an EXTREMELEY RARE lot of Easton Press books. This is the boxed set is 6/400.
Impelled by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure and aided by an extraordinary facility in Eastern languages, Sir Richard Burton (1821-90) was one of the great traveler-explorers of history. He was the first European to enter the capital of Somaliland and the first to discover the Great Lakes of Central Africa. He was also an Orientalist of the first rank.
But it is for his pilgrimage in 1853 to Mecca and Medina and the most sacrosanct shrines of Islam that Burton is best known - ...