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The Penetration of Arabia. A Record of the Development of Western Knowledge Concerning the Arabian Peninsula

 AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-F-00200
Authors: D.G.Hogarth 
Published in: London
Published by: Lawrence and Bullen , 1904
Contents:
The archaeologist David George Hogarth (1862–1927) was, when he died, keeper of the Ashmolean Museum and president of the Royal Geographical Society. During the First World War he was acting director of the Arab Bureau in Cairo, where he was instrumental in launching the Arab Revolt, in which Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935), a protégé of his, played so prominent a part.
This book, published in 1904 as the Hejaz railway was being built, contains a summary of earlier explorations in the Arabian peninsula, by both Muslim and European travellers. The book has two sections: 1. 'The Pioneers' analyzes the historical geography of the region from the time of Claudius Ptolemy (second century), and includes discussions of explorations by 18th- and early-to-mid-19th-century travellers such as Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) and Domingo Badia y Leblich (1766-1818).
2. The second section, entitled 'The Successors' covers the travels of mid-19th-century to early 20th-century explorers, such as - Joseph Halévy (1827-1917), - Charles Huber (1837–1884), - James Raymond Wellsted (1805–1842), - Thomas-Joseph Arnaud (1812-1884) - William Gifford Palgrave (1826-1888), - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922), - Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), - Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857–1936), - Julius Euting (1839-1913) & - Eduard Glaser (1855-1908)
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