Reviews for Un Estudio del 'Viaje de Turquia': Autobiografia o Ficcion

The average rating for Un Estudio del 'Viaje de Turquia': Autobiografia o Ficcion based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-02-29 00:00:00 Germain Robichaud The title page for this book is unfortunately misleading in that it identifies the then-late James Theodore Bent as the primary author. In fact, both the narrative point of view and the arrangement of the story are the work of his wife, Mabel Bent, and the story is that of an English woman exploring, by both land and sea, an area comprising Bahrain, Oman, Iran, Eritrea, Sudan, Socotra, and Yemen. The result is a remarkably unique perspective that has gained scant scholarly attention due to the mistake on the title page, which was probably motivated by two purposes: one, being that the husband was more well-regarded as a scholar; the second, that he had recently died, just after returning from this journey.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-02-22 00:00:00 Jeff Fardella This is a very scholarly work, full of survey data, supplies costs, and etymological analysis of place names. Burton seeks out evidence for an auriferous Midian on the Saudi Arabian coast of Gulf of Aqaba. From the shore there of the Tabuk region, Burton looks back into antiquity and sees the gold mine of Solomon's Bathsheba and the Red Sea that swallowed Pharaoh's hordes. There is much in the way of making real Bible history here with much of the detail and footnotes and occasional glimpses into the meetings and human moments of the journey from Egypt.