Author: PALGRAVE, WILLIAM GIFFORD.
Title: Narrative of A Year's Journey Through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63). Two Volumes.
Description: Second Edition; Demy 8vo; Vol. I. pp. xiv, 466, (2 pages advertisements) Vol. II. pp. (vi), 398, (2 pages advertisements); engraved frontispiece, folding engraved map with small closed tear at inner margin, 4 folding lithographed plans, original green cloth, title lettered in gilt on spines, gilt decoration to front boards, previous owner's hand-made bookplates on the fixed front endpaper of each volume, very good set. London and Cambridge, Macmillan and Co. 1865. Palgrave (1826 - 1888) was an ordained priest, he joined the order of the Jesuits and served as a member of the order in India, Rome and in Syria, where he acquired a command of Arabic. On his second journey to Syria he assumed the identity of a travelling Syrian physician. He travelled from Syria, through Najd, and on to Bahrain and Oman, he returned to Europe, where he wrote this narrative of his travels.

Keywords: Travel Arabia Middle East Syria History