A Secret Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina by Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Richard Francis Burton

A Secret Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina

Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Richard Francis Burton

560 pages first pub 1856 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous mysterious slow-paced
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On the 4th of April 1853, a Persian prince left Southampton for Alexandria on the steamship Bengal. Five months later the mysterious traveller - now an Afghan doctor named Abdullah - entered the holy city of Mecca. He was none other than Sir Richa...

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