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First Footsteps in East Africa; Or, an Exploration of Harar
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Author/Editor: Richard F. Burton
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One of the great adventure classics. Victorian scholar-adventurer’s firsthand epic account of daring 1854 expedition to forbidden East African capital city. A treasury of detailed information on Muslim beliefs, manners and morals; plus pleasures and perils of the desert. A wealth of geographic,...  read more
 


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One of the great adventure classics. Victorian scholar-adventurer’s firsthand epic account of daring 1854 expedition to forbidden East African capital city. A treasury of detailed information on Muslim beliefs, manners and morals; plus pleasures and perils of the desert. A wealth of geographic, ethnographic and linguistic data.
Reprint of the Tylston and Edwards, London, 1894 edition.
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Product Details:

ISBN 10: 0486254755
ISBN 13: 9780486254753
Author/Editor: Richard F. Burton
Format: Book
Page Count: 544
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 8 1/2
Publication date: November 2011
Table of Contents: Click here to view the Table of Contents

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