Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land - Bok av John Lloyd Stephens - Häftad
Perhaps the first modern travelogues still to capture the imaginations of armchair explorers, the mid-19th-century bestselling books of American diplomat and writer JOHN LLOYD STEPHENS (1805-1852) reads like the most inspired of novels. The poetic immediacy places the reader square in the saddle of adventure.In this classic 1837 work-which a critic like Edgar Allan Poe praised for its \freshness of manner evincing manliness of feeling\-Stephens takes the reader on an evocative journey through the..