Description

Christians at Mecca is a collection of narratives summarizing the journeys undertaken by 16 European travelers to the Muslim holy city, starting with Ludovico di Varthema, who visited in 1503, and ending with Jules Gervais-Courtellemont, who visited in 1894. The list also includes Vincent Le Blanc (1568), Johann Wild (1607), Joseph Pitts (1680), Domingo Badia y Leblich (also called Ali Bey, 1807), Ulrich Jasper Seetzen (1809‒10), Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1814‒15), Giovanni Finati (1814), Léon Roches (1841‒42), Georg August Wallin (1845), Sir Richard Burton (1853), Heinrich, Freiherr von ...