Pilgrimage to Medina and Mecca (Unabridged Excerpts) Audiobook by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1266/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Pilgrimage to Medina and Mecca (Unabridged Excerpts) Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton Narrator: Patrick Tull Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins Language: English Release date: 12-16-99 Publisher: Recorded Books Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 28 votes Genres: History, World Publisher's Summary: Explorer, adventurer and linguistic genius, Sir Richard Francis Burton was the first Englishman to enter Mecca, the holy city of Muslims. Fluent in Arabic and the traditions of Islam, Burton joined the hajj - the pilgrimage to Mecca - incognito. The Royal Geographical Society hoped Burton's efforts would add detail to the "huge white blot" on their Arabian maps. His resulting Pilgrimage to Medina and Mecca was of great anthropological and literary merit, and brought him much notoriety. Editorial Reviews: One could imagine the premise of Sir Richard Burton's Pilgrimage to Medina and Mecca being pitched as a madcap, Mrs. Doubtfire-style comedy: A romantic, self-styled member of the British aristocracy cons his way into the Muslim holy land by pretending to be a wandering dervishit's the reverse-Borat! But Burton plays it straight in this classic of travel literature. Patrick Tull brings a vinegary pluck to Sir Richard's Herodotean tale of adventure and amateur anthropology. Likely to be as fascinating a window into the 19th-century British mind as into the Arab world, Pilgrimage to Medina and Mecca remains one of the history's most brazen and fascinating stories of cross-cultural exploration.