"I have entitled this account of my summer's tour through Al-Hijaz, a Personal Narrative, and I have laboured to make its nature correspond with its name, simply because "it is the personal that interests mankind." Many may not follow my example."_x000D_ Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccahis

Posing as a wandering dervish, Burton gained admittance to the holy Kaabah and to the tomb of the prophet at Medina and participated in all the rituals of the Hadj (pilgrimage). A treasury of material on Arab life, beliefs, manners and morals, and much more. Volume One starts with the

Books about Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina in Three Volumes by Richard F. Burton

A vivid account of the hajj in 1853, by a British explorer who travelled to Mecca disguised as a pilgrim.

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