A Secret Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. Introduced by Tim Mackintosh-Smith.
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The Folio Society. 2005 2nd Printing. Hardback. 10 x 7 inches. In beige cloth covers with design by David Eccles. With black hard card slip case. Speckled brown endpapers. Fold out map to front endpapers. In near fine condition. A very clean and tight copy. (slipcase with some marking.) Burton, Richard Francis, 1821-1890. Burton's famous and dangerous pilgrimage to Mecca and El-Medinah, made in disguise, as a Persian Mirza, as a Dervish and then as a Pathan, in order to enter the Holy Cities forbidden to the non-believer. The text follows the 1879 edition title ‘Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage...’ 539pp. With portrait frontis and many b&w photographs. Colour fold out map at front.
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- A Secret Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. Introduced by Tim Mackintosh-Smith.
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- BURTON, RICHARD F.:
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- The Folio Society. 2005 2nd Printing
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- FOLIO SOCIETY publications Middle East Middle East, foreign travel, RICHARD F. BURTON, Mecca, Medina, Arabia, Secret Pilgrimage, Introduced, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, disguise, Persian Mirza, Dervish, Pathan, Holy Cities, forbidden, infidel, photographs,
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