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AEI Arabia Egypt India A Narrative of Travel

BURTON Isabel [Lady] 1831-1896

  • Publisher: William Mullan and Son
  • Published: 1879 , London and Belfast
  • Condition: Very Good
London and Belfast: William Mullan and Son, 1879. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition, complete and in Very Good condition. In the original pictorial gilt silver cloth, bevelled edges, corners rubbed. Re-spined, original laid down, gilt and silver tooling & titles. Internally, half title, frontis (with guard), [7], (viii) only, 488 pp, 12 pls, 2 maps (both coloured, 1 folding), 2 illustrations within text, 1 pl with small ink mark, new to style endpapers, printed by Hazell, Watson, and Vinney, London and Aylesbury, edges uncut, with the stamped dedication. (219*142 mm). Lady Isabel Burton was a distinguished nineteenth-century traveller, writer and critic. She and her husband Richard explored the Middle East, India, Africa and South America extensively during his diplomatic placements and for their own pleasure. Individually and collaboratively they produced several exquisitely detailed travelogues, recording custom, culture, politics and geography. This account of their travels, first published in 1879, details the Burtons' leisurely route to India through Europe before crossing the Mediterranean and continuing south through Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula. This skilful and humorous narrative brings the places and people to life through personal anecdotes, observations and colourful description. Burton's political and historical comments on the lands she travels through are reasoned, well-researched and afford valuable insight into public opinion and world affairs at this time.

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