Une Annee De Voyage Dans Larabie Centrale 1862 1863 Ouvrage Traduit De Langlais Avec

by William Gifford Palgrave

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First edition

Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette, 1866. First edition in French first published London, 1865 . 8vo. 2 volumes: xvi, 346; 4 , 429, 1 pp. Portrait frontispiece, double-page map, four plans. As a Catholic missionary in Syria, Palgrave undertook an adventurous journey across Central Arabia in 1862 and 1863. His object was to ascertain how far missionary enterprise was possible among pure Arabs, but he also accepted a mission from Napoleon III, who furnished

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