Название: Description of Egypt: Notes and Views in Egypt and Nubia
Автор: Edward William Lane
Издательство: The American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9774245253
Год: 2000
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 786
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 63,6 МБ
Язык: Английский
The launching of this hitherto unpublished book by the great nineteenth-century British traveler Edward William Lane (1801-76), a name known to almost everyone in all the many fields of Middle East studies, is a major publishing event. Lane was the author of a number of highly influential works: An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836), his translation of The Thousand and One Nights (1839-41), Selections from the Kur-an (1843), and the Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93). Yet one of his greatest works was never published: after years of labor and despite an enthusiastic reception by the publishing firm of John Murray in 1831, publication of his first book, Description of Egypt, was delayed and eventually dropped, mainly for financial reasons.