Eyewitness Accounts Pilgrimage to Meccah

by Richard Francis Burton

The journey that made Richard Burton famous as a traveller and explorer in the nineteenth century was a pilgrimage to Mecca, which he carried out disguised as a Pashtun tribesman from what is now north-western Pakistan or Afghanistan. Having spent seven years in India with the army of the East India Company, Burton was familiar with the customs and languages but the journey, travelling from Alexandria in Egypt south to the Red Sea and then from the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445644215
• ISBN13: 9781445644219
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.