Ebook Travels of M. Burckhardt, in Egypt and Nubia

The late Mr. Burckhardt was born at Zurich, inswit zerland, about 1786. His father was an officer in the military service of the French, and he had a brotherin the political service of that country also. He was him; self educated chie?y at Berlin', but being disappointed' in some promised employment from the French Court, went to England, where he completed his studies during a stay of three years at Cambridge.