Author: WALLIN, GEORG AUGUST / TALLQVIST, KNUT (Ed.):
Title: Bref och dagboksanteckningar af Georg August Wallin. Utgifna jämte en lefnadsteckning. Helsingfors 1905.
Description: . Pp. (x), cxxxiv, 366. With one front portrait and one folding map. Text in Swedish. Contemporary cloth, gilt lettered calf spine, slightly faded. First edition. Wallin, a distinguished Finnish orientalist who made several journeys to the Middle East in the 1840's and was the first European with knowledge of Arabic to explore the Arabian peninsula. Disguised as a learned Moslem sheikh he visited Mecca and Medina. This work comprises a collection of his letters and diary notes as well as a biography. (Included in "Sv. Litteratursällskapet i Finland. LXX").

Keywords: Near East, asia, asie, asiatica, orient, east, asien, near east, middle east, arabic, arabes, levant, egypt, arabia, syria, persia, saud arabia


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