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Year: 1856 Publisher: Paris siège de la publication
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Year: 1856 Publisher: Lugduni-Batavorum : Van der Hoek,
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Year: 1856 Publisher: Paris Michel Lévy frères, libraires éditeurs
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Year: 1856 Publisher: Mons Manceaux-Hoyois, imprimeur-libraire
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ISBN: 1139862987 1108064590 Year: 1856 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press
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Maria Fitzherbert (1756-1837) was already twice widowed when the young Prince of Wales began his pursuit of her in 1784. Initially refusing his offer of marriage, she eventually accepted it and the couple were wed in secret the following year. Though legitimate in her eyes, the union was invalid under the Royal Marriages Act of 1772, and controversial because of her Catholicism. A posthumous attack on her faith and morals, penned by Lord Holland in his Memoirs of the Whig Party, provoked her close friend Charles Langdale (1787-1868) into publishing this defence in 1856. A champion of Catholic emancipation, Langdale was one of the first Catholics elected to Parliament. These memoirs are based on Maria Fitzherbert's own recollections, recounted to Langdale's brother, Lord Stourton. They reveal the values and beliefs of an exceptional woman who occupied a unique and precarious position within British high society.
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ISBN: 1139162314 1108042007 Year: 1856 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press
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The British explorer Sir Richard F. Burton (1821-90) was a colourful and often controversial character. A talented linguist and keen ethnologist, he worked in India during the 1840s as an interpreter and intelligence officer for General Sir Charles Napier, and published several books about his experiences in 1851-2. He first gained celebrity, however, for his adventurous 1853 trip to Mecca, under the disguise of a pilgrim, which is described in this lively three-volume publication (1855-6). Few Europeans had ever visited the Muslim holy places; one of them was John Lewis Burckhardt, whose 1829 account is also reissued in this series. Volume 3 of Burton's book vividly describes the pilgrims' journey from Medina to Mecca, with catering including coffee, rice and 'occasionally ... tough mutton and indigestible goat', crowded camp-sites and all-night prayers and singing. Finally he arrives at the Kaabah and witnesses the culminating ceremonies of the hajj.
Pilgrims And Pilgrimages --- Saudi Arabia --- Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890 --- Islam --- Mecca (Saudi Arabia) --- Religion --- Travel --- Biography & Autobiography --- Social Science
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