William Facey

Charles Huber (eBook, ePUB)

France's Greatest Arabian Explorer

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The French-Alsatian geographer Charles Huber (1847-84) achieved fame as one of the 19th century's great Arabian explorers. On his two heroic journeys between 1880 and 1884, he pioneered the scientific mapping of inland Arabia and made some of the earliest records of ancient North Arabian inscriptions and rock art. His tragic murder in 1884 meant that he published little, and the only connected narrative that he managed to write was of his first journey in 1880-81. This highly significant document of Arabian exploration has not been published since 1885, and is presented here for the first time in English translation. 

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Medina Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781911487715
• Artikelnr.: 72171201

Autorenporträt

William Facey is a historian, publisher and museum planner. Having read Classics, philosophy and art history at Wadham College, Oxford, he first went to Arabia in 1974, since when he has participated in various museum projects in the region, notably in Saudi Arabia. His books, introductions and articles cover the history, architecture and early photography of the Arabian Peninsula countries, as well as Arab maritime history, Islam among the British, and Western travellers in Arabia, with a focus on those visiting Islam's holy cities. He founded Arabian Publishing in London in 2002, and ran it until 2015, when it was acquired by Medina Publishing Ltd. His latest book, Charles Huber: France's Greatest Arabian Explorer, was published in 2022.