Travels in Syria and the Holy Land

by John Lewis Burckhardt

Overview

Travels in Syria and the Holy Land is a masterpiece in descriptive and scholarly travelogue. It describes the author's various journeys throughout the Holy Land between 1810 and 1816 win which he records every aspect of the life of the inhabitants, their religion and culture. He also provides fascinating details of topography, natural history and archaeology.

John Lewis Buckhardt (1784-1817) is among the most intrepid and veracious o all the early European explorers of the interior of Africa. His many journal, published, after his death, by the African Association are remarkable alike for their interst and evident truthfulness.

Having studied and prepared himself for the rigours of the life of an explorer, Burckhardt travelled widely throughout North Africa and Asia, surviving in a hostile Muslim world by passing himself off as a pilgrim. Indeed, so proficient was he in the Arab language and knowledge of their religion that learned Arabs unwittingly commended him as a great Muslim scholar.

The present edition is taken in facsimile from the rare first edition of 1822, including its maps and line drawings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781850771890
Publisher:	Darf Publishers Ltd.
Publication date:	09/28/1992
Edition description:	FAC
Pages:	668
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.69(d)

Table of Contents

Editor's preface W. M. Leake; 1. Journal of a tour from Damascus, in the countries of the Libanus and Anti-Libanus; 2. Journal of an excursion into the Haouran, in the autumn and winter of 1810; 3. Journal of a tour from Aleppo to Damascus, through the valley of the Orontes and Mount Libanus, in February and March, 1812; 4. Journal of a tour from Damascus into the Haouran, and the mountains to the E. and S. E. of the Lake of Tiberias, in the months of April and May, 1812; 5. Description of a journey from Damascus through the mountains of Arabia Petraea and Desert el Ty, to Cairo, in the summer of 1812; 6. Journal of a tour in the peninsula of Mount Sinai, in the spring of 1816; Appendix: 1. An account of the Ryhanlu Turkmans; 2. On the political division of Syria, and the recent changes in the government of Aleppo; 3. The Hadj route from Damascus to Mekka; 4. Description of the route from Boszra in the Haouran, to Djebel Shammor; 5. A route to the eastward of the Castle El Hassa.