Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, And The Holy Land
by John Lloyd Stephens
University of Oklahoma Press, c1970, no other printings listed, 474 pages. NEAR MINT Condition Hardcover with an EXCELLENT Condition Dust Jacket. This book basically looks LIKE NEW with only slight dj edgewear, slight dj soiling, & faint dj spine sunning. Pages & Binding are NICE & TIGHT!
An extensive & engaging tour of the Middle East, including Alexandria, Cairo, a journey along the Nile, Thebes, a scent of Sinai, Petra, the valley of El Ghor, Hebron, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Dead Sea, Judea, and Nazareth.
Edited with and Introduction by Victor Wolfgang von Hagen, who has written extensively about Stephens' Central American travels. Stephens is famous for his explorations in Yucatan where he discovered the Mayan ruins. This book was based on his earlier travels but written in the same interesting style which was to become famous later. Most of the plates weren't in the original 1837 edition but have been taken from various contemporary travels to complement the book. The illustrations from the original are also included in this edition but are enlarged here.
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