2 volumes - Travels Through Arabia and Other Countries in the East.
2 volumes - Travels Through Arabia and Other Countries in the East.
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- Author
- Niebuhr, M.
- Publishers
- Beirut: Librairie du Liban., o. J.
- Size
- Reprint / Nachdruck der Ausgabe von 1792. XX, 424 / XII, 437 S. / p. Original Leinen kaschiert mit Schutzumschlag / Cloth laminated with dust jacket.
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- Languages
- German
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Description
Randl�ren, ansonsten tadelloser Zustand / Marginal tears, otherwise impeccable condition - Niebuhr, Carsten ( 1733-1815 ) , German traveller who was the sole survivor of the first scientific expedition to Arabia and the compiler of its results, was born at L�dingworth, Hanover in 1733. He worked as a peasant in his early years, but managed to learn surveying. In 1760, he joined the expedition being sent out by Frederick V of Denmark for the scientific exploration of Egypt, Arabia and Syria. He returned home in 1767, and died at Meldorf in Holstein on April 26, 1815. Niebuhrs major works are Beschreibung von arabien ( Fr. trans., Description de l'Arabie ) and Reisebeschreibung nach arabien und andern umliegenden l�ern ( Eng. trans., Travels Through Arabia ) . He also edited P. Forskal's Descriptiones animalium, Flora aegyptiaco-arabica and Icones rerum naturalium.
