Unterwegs am Golf / Along the Gulf
From Basra to Muscat - Photographs by Hermann Burchardt
Annegret Nippa / Peter Herbstreuth
German, English
bound, 232 pages, 90 figures, 1 map
1st Edition, 2005
Verlag Hans Schiler
From Basra to Muscat - Photographs by Hermann Burchardt \'Burchardt did not love his life as a businessman. After the death of his father, he used his small inheritance to become a gentleman of leisure. But he was pulled out into the world. On his adventures he prepared himself by learning the languages of the inhabitants of Africa coasts, Swahili, and of the Arabia deserts. And off he went to the Orient. Soon thereafter, in 1903, he traveled for 100 days along the Persian Gulf coast, from Basra to Muscat. This journey illuminates his photos. A book not just for globetrotters, it is a pleasure for anyone to compare the then and now photos, which are discussed knowledgebly. The bilingual tome is rounded out by Burchardt\'s lecture before the Geographical Society in Berlin about his trip around the Gulf . \' Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, Süddeutsche Zeitung
