Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767 by Thorkild Hansen, James McFarlane, Kathleen McFarlane

Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767

Thorkild Hansen, James McFarlane, Kathleen McFarlane

381 pages first pub 1962 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous slow-paced

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Arabia Felix is the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gone disastrously astray. On a winter morning in 1761 six men leave Copenhagen by sea a botanist, a philologist, an astronomer, a doctor, an artist, and their manservant an ill...

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