Richard Burton was a blend of scholar and adventurer. Fluent in twenty-nine languages, he gained insight into societies closed to Western scrutiny. He earned a racy reputation in that age…

Arabia, Egypt, India - Narrative of Travel is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1879. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as…

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…

A distinguished and accomplished writer, Lady Isabel Burton (1831-96) published in 1879 a colourful, humorous and intimate observational account of her and her husband’s voyage through the Middle East and…

In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we…

It had long been our desire to visit Palestine and the Holy Land thoroughly, and so in March, 1871, we determined to set out. Richard wished me to go by…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…