Exploration & Journeys
Land of Midian (Revisited)
Richard Francis Burton
2026
6h 55m$1.99
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He went back to Arabia looking for gold mines, on behalf of a ruler who wanted them very badly. Burton, the most formidable traveller of the century, surveyed the Midian coast in 1877 for minerals and reports the ruins, the geology, the Bedouin and the ancient workings, with all the erudition and all the contempt he could never switch off. Exploration by a genius in a bad mood.
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11 chapters
- 1Preface and Abstrct27m
- 2Part I The March Through Madyan Proper (North Midian) Chapter I Preliminary—from Trieste to Midian36m
- 3Part I Chapter II The Start—from El-muwaylah to the "White Mountain" and 'Aynúnah44m
- 4Part I Chapter III Breaking New Ground to Magháir Shu'ayb36m
- 5Part I Chapter IV Notices of Precious Metals in Midian—the Papyri and the Mediæval Arab Geographers30m
- 6Part I Chapter V Work At, and Excursions From, Magháir Shu'Ayb44m
- 7Part I Chapter VI To Makná, and Our Work There—the Magáni or Maknáwis40m
- 8Part I Chapter VII Cruise from Makná to El-'Akabah50m
- 9Part I Chapter VIII Cruise from El-'Akabah to El-Muwaylah—the Shipwreck Escaped-Résumé of the Northern Journey30m
- 10Part II The March Through Central and Eastern Midian Chapter IX Work in and Around El-Muwaylah26m
- 11Part II Chapter X Through East Midian to the Hismá53m
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