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Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
©1992
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This biography attempts to strip away centuries of distortion and myth and present a balanced view of Muhammad, the man whose religion, Islam, continues to dramatically affect the course of history.
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xii, 381 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting account of a landmark expedition that left only one survivor, now back in print for the first time in decades. Arabia Felix is the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gone disastrously astray. On a winter morning in 1761 six men leave Copenhagen by sea--a botanist, a philologist, an astronomer, a doctor, an artist, and their manservant--an ill-assorted band of men who dislike and distrust one another from the start. These...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Following in the footsteps of famed explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer Levison Wood brings us along on his most complex expedition yet: a circumnavigation of the Arabian Peninsula. Starting in September 2017 in a city in Northern Syria, a stone's throw away from Turkey and amidst the deadliest war of the twenty-first century, Wood set forth on a 5,000-mile trek through the most contested region on the planet....
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