Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

Incidents of travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land.

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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Gut. 473 S. Umschlag defekt, sonst gutes Exemplar. - This new edition of one of the most delightful travel books ever written will interest historians, archaeologists, and armchair travelers everywhere. First published in New York in 1837, it made John Lloyd Stephens a literary sensation overnight and led him to write other books, including, eventually, reports on some of the earliest explo-rations in the Mayan cities of Central America. On a "mild European trip" in search of health, young New York lawyer Stephens reached Egypt in 1836. Alone, except for his native boat crew and his servant Paolo, he traveled up the Nile, visiting the magnificent Egyptian ruins as he went. Dendera, the Valley of the Kings, the Island of Philae, Luxor, and the Colossi of Memnon were all visited and marveled at, the details and incidents stored away to be recounted later. At Luxor he dined with an English gentleman and his lady, who had been to Mount Sinai and the Red Sea, and they suggested Petra. "To them," wrote Stephens, "I am indebted for the first suggestion to me of the route to Sinai and Arabia Petraea." Thus, on March 14, 1836, metamorphosed into "Abdel Hasis," a merchant of Cairo in full costume, Stephens began his perilous journey through Stony Arabia. The high point of the Arabian journey was the visit to Petra, the marvelous rock city intaglioed into the walls of a narrow canyon by the Nabataeans-"the rose red city half as old as time." Stephens was the first American to visit Petra, and his descriptions remained for many years the principal source of popular interest in the ancient city. The trip to the Holy Land was almost anticlimax, though Stephens traversed an old land route once a Roman road-track and rode through the utterly desolate Land of Edom. Taking a wide, circling route, he paused at the Dead Sea and went on to Jerusalem. There he made a tour of the holy places, noted the historical facts, and yet always gave them a mischievous twist. While the adventurous Stephens perhaps is best remembered for his discoveries in Central America, which laid the foundation of modern Maya archaeology, his travels in Africa and the Near East provided the impetus-and this book the financing-for the later momentous Central American explorations. ISBN 080610886x Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1550 Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag. Reprint of the edition New York 1837. Edited, and with an introduction by Victor Wolfgang von Hagen. Artikel-Nr. 1073265

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