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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
October 2011
Print publication year:
2011
First published in:
1819
Online ISBN:
9780511782374
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511782374
Subjects:
Area Studies, African Studies, Geography, Historical Geography, African History
Series:
Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies
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John Lewis Burckhardt (1784–1817) was a Swiss explorer who is best remembered for his rediscovery of the ancient city of Petra in modern Jordan. In 1809 he was commissioned by the African Association to discover the source of the River Niger. Posing as a Muslim convert, Burckhardt spent two years exploring and studying Arabic and Islamic law in Aleppo, before travelling widely in Arabia and Egypt This volume, first published posthumously in 1819, contains Burckhardt's account of his two visits to Nubia (modern Upper Egypt and Sudan) in 1813 and 1814. Burckhardt was the first western scholar to explore the Sudanese Nile valley, and one of the first western explorers successfully to cross the Nubian Desert. In this valuable volume, he describes in fascinating detail the many ancient ruins along the Nile and the logistics and hardships of his desert crossing.

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