The Red Sea and Adjacent Countries at the Close of the Seventeenth Century: As Described by Joseph Pitts, William Daniel, and Charles Jacques Poncet

ISBN-13: 9781409414667 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 232 str.

Sir William Foster

Opis

With additional documents. The first narrative is from Pitts' Religion and Manners of the Mahometans (Third Edition, 1731); Daniel's journal was printed in 1702, Poncet's in 1709. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1949.

Spis treści

1: AN Account By Joseph Pitts of His Journey From Algiers to Mecca and Medina and Back; 2: A Narrative by William Daniel of His Journey from London to Mocha and Back 1700?1; 1: Daniel’s Account of His Expenses 1; 3: A Narrative by Charles Jacques Poncet of His Journey from Cairo into Abyssinia and Back 1698–1701; 2: A Voyage to Æthiopia in the year[s] 1698, 1699, and 1700.; 3: De Brèvedent’s Account of the Journey to Sennar 1; 4: Letter from Poncet at Jidda to the French Consul at Cairo; 5: The Interrogation of Poncet at Cairo

O autorze

Sir William Foster