AEI Arabia Egypt India: A Narrative of Travel
London: William Mullan and Son, 1879. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis map, illustrations, viii, 488p. Recent 1/2 buckram (marbled boards backed in buckram with matching buckram corners). 21cm. Minor foxing (mostly on a few pages at beginning and end of book). Lacks folding map which should face page 1. Burton left for India with her husband Richard in December, 1875 and returned to Trieste in June 1876. Her account is almost entirely devoted to the time spent in India with much shorter accounts of the voyages to and from, including an interesting chapter on a stop at Jeddah on the way to India. Portions of this book are generally thought to have been written by her husband. Good. Item #84420
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