1893 Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah

Description

Colour Plates, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The Memorial Edition of this work, which was first published in 1855.

Complete in two volumes.

The work recounts Burton’s 1853 journey to the Islamic holy cities of Medina and Mecca, which he undertook in disguise as a Muslim pilgrim, as non-Muslims were forbidden from entering these sites.

Burton, an officer in the British East India Company and a linguist, provides detailed ethnographic, religious, and geographical observations, drawn from direct experience and field notes.

Illustrated with a frontispiece, folding colour map, two chromolithographs, four tinted lithographs, and two further plates to volume I. With a chromolithographic frontispiece, a further two chromolithographs and four tinted lithographs, and a folding plate to volume II.

Collated, complete.