Arabia, Egypt, India
A Narrative of Travel

Published in 1879, this intricate travelogue through Egypt and Arabia to India illuminates contemporary cultures, politics and landscapes.

Isabel Burton (Author)

9781108046428, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 7 June 2012

532 pages, 12 b/w illus. 2 maps
21.6 x 14 x 3 cm, 0.67 kg

Lady Isabel Burton (1831–96) was a distinguished nineteenth-century traveller, writer and critic. She and her husband Richard explored the Middle East, India, Africa and South America extensively during his diplomatic placements and for their own pleasure. Individually and collaboratively they produced several exquisitely detailed travelogues, recording custom, culture, politics and geography. This account of their travels, first published in 1879, details the Burtons' leisurely route to India through Europe before crossing the Mediterranean and continuing south through Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula. This skilful and humorous narrative brings the places and people to life through personal anecdotes, observations and colourful description. Burton's political and historical comments on the lands she travels through are reasoned, well-researched and afford valuable insight into public opinion and world affairs at this time.

Introduction
1. From London through France and Italy
2. Trieste, and general politics in that quarter
3. Trieste to Port Said
4. How cholera spreads
5. Bombay
6. The journey to Hyderabad in the Deccan
7. Hyderabad in the Deccan
8. Hyderabad
9. The Nizam diamond
10. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
11. Dedicated to the anti-vivisectionists of England
12. Bombay
13. The sanitaria of Western India
14. The hill races and forest men of Western India
15. We leave Bombay for Goa
16. The civil and religious history of Goa
17. The career of St. Francis Xavier
18. On the inquisition of Goa
19. A peep into the future of north-western India
20. We leave India
Appendix.

Subject Areas: Historical geography [HBTP]