Arabic Proverbs : Or, the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians / [translated by] John Lewis Burckhardt ; edited by William Ouseley.
John Lewis Burckhardt (1784-1817) was a Swiss explorer who is best remembered for his rediscovery of the ancient city of Petra in modern Jordan. In 1809 he was commissioned by the African Association to discover the source of the River Niger. In preparation for this journey, for which he needed to p...
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