Travels in Greece, Palestine, Egypt, and Barbary, During the Years 1806 and 1807. Translated by Frederic Shoberl. Second Edition. with a Map.

Publisher Marketing: Title: Travels in Greece, Palestine, Egypt, and Barbary, during the years 1806 and 1807 ... Translated ... by Frederic Shoberl. Second edition. [With a map.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Chateaubriand, Francois Rene de; Shoberl, Frederick; 1812. 2 vol.; 8 . 10024.g.9. Contributor Bio:  De Chateaubriand, Francois Rene Francois Rene de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) was a French novelist, essayist, memoirist, translator, playwright, critic and biographer was born in Saint-Malo to a Breton family of aristocratic blood, growing up as the youngest of ten children. Directionless as a young man, he thought of a naval career; later of priesthood, only to end up in the army, from which he resigned his commission after two years. After witnessing the fall of the Bastille in 1789, he sailed to America in 1791. A year later he returned to France where he served army, again, to defend the monarchy. Wounded and abandoned in the battlefield, against all odds he survived. In 1793 he moved to London to begin a literary career.