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Dolce far niente in Arabia

Georg August Wallin and his travels in the 1840s
Pages
144
Published
2014
Language
English

Synopsis

Georg August Wallin's life and travels in Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula and Persia are presented in four articles by Patricia Berg, Sofia Häggman, Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila and Kaj Öhrnberg respectively. Wallin's impact as an ethnographic observer and linguistic scholar is also examined.