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Arabia Felix

Af: Thorkild Hansen, Kathleen McFarlane, James McFarlane, Colin Thubron Engelsk Paperback

Arabia Felix

Af: Thorkild Hansen, Kathleen McFarlane, James McFarlane, Colin Thubron Engelsk Paperback
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A riveting account of a landmark expedition that left only one survivor, now back in print for the first time in decades.

Arabia Felix is the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gone disastrously awry. On a winter morning in 1761 six men leave Copenhagen by sea—a botanist, a philologist, an astronomer, a doctor, an artist, and their manservant—an ill-assorted band of men who dislike and distrust one another from the start. These are the members of the Danish expedition to Arabia Felix, as Yemen was then known, the first organized foray into a corner of the world unknown to Europeans. The expedition made its way to Turkey and Egypt, by which time its members were already actively seeking to undercut and even kill one another, before disappearing into the harsh desert that was their destination. Nearly seven years later a single survivor returned to Denmark to find himself forgotten and all the specimens that had been sent back ruined by neglect.

Based on diaries, notebooks, and sketches that lay unread in Danish archives until the twentieth century, Arabia Felix is a tale of intellectual rivalry and a comedy of very bad manners, as well as an utterly absorbing adventure.

Arabia Felix includes 33 line drawings and maps.
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A riveting account of a landmark expedition that left only one survivor, now back in print for the first time in decades.

Arabia Felix is the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gone disastrously awry. On a winter morning in 1761 six men leave Copenhagen by sea—a botanist, a philologist, an astronomer, a doctor, an artist, and their manservant—an ill-assorted band of men who dislike and distrust one another from the start. These are the members of the Danish expedition to Arabia Felix, as Yemen was then known, the first organized foray into a corner of the world unknown to Europeans. The expedition made its way to Turkey and Egypt, by which time its members were already actively seeking to undercut and even kill one another, before disappearing into the harsh desert that was their destination. Nearly seven years later a single survivor returned to Denmark to find himself forgotten and all the specimens that had been sent back ruined by neglect.

Based on diaries, notebooks, and sketches that lay unread in Danish archives until the twentieth century, Arabia Felix is a tale of intellectual rivalry and a comedy of very bad manners, as well as an utterly absorbing adventure.

Arabia Felix includes 33 line drawings and maps.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 392
ISBN-13: 9781681370729
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1681370727
Kategori: Sande fortællinger: opdagelser / historie / videnskab
Udg. Dato: 13 jun 2017
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 202mm
Højde: 131mm
Forlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc
Oplagsdato: 13 jun 2017
Forfatter(e): Thorkild Hansen, Kathleen McFarlane, James McFarlane, Colin Thubron
Forfatter(e) Thorkild Hansen, Kathleen McFarlane, James McFarlane, Colin Thubron

Kategori Sande fortællinger: opdagelser / historie / videnskab

ISBN-13 9781681370729

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 392

Udgave

Længde 22mm

Bredde 202mm

Højde 131mm

Udg. Dato 13 jun 2017

Oplagsdato 13 jun 2017

Forlag The New York Review of Books, Inc

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