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A Description of the East, and Some other Countries.

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A Description of the East, and Some other Countries.

By Richard Pococke


<span id="yiv7569684854yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1521641047427_6895">Pococke's 'Description of the East' is widely recognized as a leading treatise of the 18th century on the Middle East and the Levant. The first volume of the work is devoted to Egypt; the second to Palestine, …

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