- Description
- Posing as a wandering dervish, Burton gained admittance to the holy Kaabah and to the tomb of the prophet at Medina and participated in all the rituals of the Hadj (pilgrimage). A treasury of material on Arab life, beliefs, manners and morals, and much more. Volume One starts with the Preface to the Memorial Edition by his wife, Isabel Burton.
- Publication date
- 1964.
- Call number
- 635925
- ISBN
- 0486212173
- 9780486212173
- 0486212181
- 9780486212180
- Provenance
- Gift of Edwards Metcalf, 1992.
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Associated people
- Burton, Isabel,
- Metcalf, Edwards H.
- Associated organization
- Dover Publications, Inc.,