Author: WALLIN, GEORG AUGUST:
Title: G.A. Wallins Lefnad och Resor berättade för ungdom. Helsingfors, G.W. Edlunds Förlag, 1872.
Description: . Small 8vo. Pp. vi, 377. With one lithographed portrait. Original coloured pictorial paper boards, cloth spine. A biography about Wallin and his travels to the Middle East written for a young audience. In lovely condition.His first journey was made in 1845 and took him to Jubbah and Hail, and further to Mecca. Wallin's second journey took him across the Hijaz mountains to Tabuk in the north-eastern part of Arabia, continuing on to Taima on the edge of Wahhabi territory and he became the first European to set foot there. In 1850 he returned to Finland where he was appointed professor of Oriental languages at Helsinki University.
Keywords: Near East, arabia, arabic, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, saud arabia,
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Title: G.A. Wallins Lefnad och Resor berättade för ungdom. Helsingfors, G.W. Edlunds Förlag, 1872.
Description: . Small 8vo. Pp. vi, 377. With one lithographed portrait. Original coloured pictorial paper boards, cloth spine. A biography about Wallin and his travels to the Middle East written for a young audience. In lovely condition.His first journey was made in 1845 and took him to Jubbah and Hail, and further to Mecca. Wallin's second journey took him across the Hijaz mountains to Tabuk in the north-eastern part of Arabia, continuing on to Taima on the edge of Wahhabi territory and he became the first European to set foot there. In 1850 he returned to Finland where he was appointed professor of Oriental languages at Helsinki University.
Keywords: Near East, arabia, arabic, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, saud arabia,
Price: EUR 260.00 = appr. US$ 282.58 Seller: Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books
- Book number: 120676
- Book number: 120676
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