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Book/Printed MaterialA modern pilgrim in Mecca, Major Arthur John Byng Wavell (1882-1916) was a British military officer, Arabist, and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Born in London, he was educated at Winchester College and Sandhurst. In 1900 he joined the Welsh Regiment of the British Army and sailed to British South Africa, where he fought in the Boer War. This was followed by a War Office assignment to...
- Contributor: Wavell, A. J. B. (Arthur John Byng)
- Date: 1918-01-01
- Resource: - 260 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialArabia; the cradle of Islam; Samuel Zwemer (1867-1952) was an American Protestant missionary who lived for nine years in Bahrain and became a student of the Arab world and, especially, the Arabian Peninsula. Published in New York in 1900, Arabia: The Cradle of Islam contains detailed chapters on the geography of Arabia; the holy cities of Mecca and Medina; the Prophet Muhammad and the rise of Islam; the contemporary...
- Contributor: Zwemer, Samuel Marinus
- Date: 1900
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Book/Printed MaterialThe gold-mines of Midian and the ruined Midianite cities. A fortnight's tour in north-western Arabia.
- Contributor: Burton, Richard Francis
- Date: 1878-01-01
- Resource: - 422 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe land of Midian (revisited). LAC ael 2019-03-21 update (1 card)
- Contributor: Burton, Richard Francis
- Date: 1879-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialPersonal narrative of a year's journey through central and eastern Arabia (1862-63) William Gifford Palgrave (1826-88) was a famous English traveler to Arabia who inspired a generation of European explorers and missionaries. He became fluent in Arabic while serving as a Jesuit missionary in Syria. In 1862 he undertook a year-long journey through the Arabian Peninsula with the stated aim of studying the "moral, political, and intellectual conditions of living Arabia." He was also working as...
- Contributor: Palgrave, William Gifford
- Date: 1871
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Book/Printed MaterialArabia. Josiah Conder (1789-1855) was a British publisher and author who wrote or compiled 33 volumes of travel literature about nearly every region of the world, including the Middle East. Conder himself never traveled abroad and composed his works by drawing upon the writings of earlier scholars and explorers. As indicated in the subtitle, Conder organized his book on Arabia into sections. He begins by...
- Contributor: Conder, Josiah
- Date: 1833
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Book/Printed MaterialLife in the desert: or, Recollections of travel in Asia and Africa. Life in the Desert, or, Recollections of Travel in Asia and Africa is an English translation of a work originally published in 1860 in France under the title Les Mystères du Désert. The purported author, Louis Du Couret (1812-67), claimed to be the son of a colonel in the French army. He traveled to the Middle East in 1836, where he served as a...
- Contributor: S., C. D. - Du Couret, Louis
- Date: 1860