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Carruthers, Douglas (Editor)

The Desert Route to India; Being The Journals of Four Travellers By the Great Desert Caravan Route Between Aleppo and Basra 1745-1751

1929

140,06 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1929
Lugar de impresión
London. The Hakluyt Society
Autor
Carruthers, Douglas (Editor)
Edición
First edition.
Materia
Travel - Asia
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

8vo [22.5 x 15 cm]; xxxvi, 196 pp, 6 plates including frontis, folding colored map at end, bibliog, errata page, index. original blue cloth with gilt vignette on covers, gilt spine title lettering, spine lightly faded but gilt bright, light stain on inside corner of first leaves, else very good copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The four travelers are William Beawes, Garlard Roberts, Bartholomew Plaisted and John Carmichael. Carruthers provides an excellent and extensive historical perspective in his introduction, an important contribution to understanding the great routes between Europe and Asia, the route through the Syrian Desert to Persia, being described in detail. Cox i, 244.
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