by John Lewis Burckhardt · Laertes editorial, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475841687
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«Vida y viajes de John Lewis Burckhardt» is the travel book by explorer John Lewis Burckhardt (Laertes, paperback, 141 pages, Spanish).
The book follows the Swiss John Lewis Burckhardt through the Middle East between 1809 and 1817: stays in Cairo and Damascus, visits to Petra, Abu Simbel, Mount Sinai, Nubia, Medina and Mecca. To avoid drawing attention, he adopted the name Ibrahim Ibn Abd Allah and Arab clothing.
It is volume 40 of the Nan-Shan collection, published in 1991 with a translation from English by Marta Pérez Sánchez. The original English title is Memoir on the Life and Travels of John Lewis Burckhardt.
For readers interested in the history of exploration and European travellers in the Near East in the 19th century.
