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Fisk, George (1845): A pastor's memorial of Egypt, the Red Sea, the wildernesses of Sin and Paran, Mount Sinai, Jerusalem, and other principal localities of the Holy Land visited in 1842 Forsyth, J. Bell (James Bell), 1802–1869) (1861): A Few Months in the East: Or, A Glimpse of the Red, the Dead, and the Black Seas Printed by J. Lovell, 181 ...
The book is probably the first published account of the Near East by a Czech traveller. A 1606 engraving of an Egyptian mongoose by Jan Willenberg. Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic (1564–1621) was a renaissance man with a broad range of interests. In 1598 he went as a pilgrim to the Holy Land, returning at the beginning of the next year.
Conrad Grünenberg, Pilgrimage to the Holy Land (1486) Bernard von Breydenbach (ca. 1440-1497) a deacon of Mainz Cathedral, Germany. Peregrinatio in terram sanctam (1486) an account of his travels to the Holy Land alongside Erhard Reuwich, an artist hired specifically to make the woodblock prints for the Peregrinatio. This book is one of the ...
An overview to English travelers through the 18th century has been provided by Mohamad Ali Hachicho in his English Travel Books About the Arab Near East in the Eighteenth Century (1964), published in Die Welt des Islams. [121] Travelogues of the 18th to 20th Centuries. Travel accounts to Persia by Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam. [429] Hakluyt Society.
The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain. [2] Published in 1869, it humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered steamship Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City) through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867.
Mapped route of the journey described by an unnamed Christian pilgrim, who travelled from Gallia Aquitania (Southern France) to the Holy Land in the fourth century. Itinerarium Burdigalense ("Bordeaux Itinerary"), also known as Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum ("Jerusalem Itinerary"), is the oldest known Christian itinerarium.
The Pilgrimage of Johannes Phocas in the Holy Land. Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society. (1890): Description of the Holy Land by John of Würzburg (1160–1170) (1890): The Epitome of S. Eucherius about certain Holy Places (ca. A.D. 440) and the Breviary or short description of Jerusalem (ca. A.D. 530) Antoninus of Piacenza (1890).
This monastery was probably near Chernihiv in Ukraine, in the Land of Chernihivshchyna. [6] Daniel's narratives begin at Constantinople. [7] He began his travels in the early 12th century and was likely in Constantinople around 1106 to 1108. [3] [6] [7] [8] Daniel stayed in the Jerusalem area for over a year and took various trips around ...