Название: Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767
Автор: Thorkild Hansen
Издательство: New York Review Books
ISBN: 1681370727
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 401
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 12,9 МБ
Язык: Английский
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.