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Arabia Felix

Arabia Felix

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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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Funktioner

Bogomslagstype

Paperback

Antal sider

400 Sider

Skrevet af

Thorkild Hansen

Oversætter

James McFarlane, Kathleen McFarlane

Udgiver

NYRB Classics

Udgivelsesdato

13/06/2017

International standard bookingnummer (ISBN)

9781681370729

Mindste ordremængde

1 stk

Vægt & størrelser

Bredde

127 mm

Højde

203,2 mm

Arabia Felix

217 kr.

217 kr.

På lager

Tirs., 8 juli - man., 14 juli


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14 dages åbent køb


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Adlibris