The Land of Midian by Richard Francis Burton audiobook.
Genre: history
In The Land of Midian, Victorian explorer and linguist Richard Francis Burton turns his keen eye to the stark, little-mapped borderlands of northwest Arabia along the Red Sea. Framed as the record of an expedition undertaken with practical aims as well as scientific curiosity, the book follows Burton and his companions as they push through heat, scarcity, and hard geography to investigate rumors of mineral wealth and to observe the peoples and places that lie beyond familiar shipping routes. Burton blends on-the-ground travel narrative with detailed notes on terrain, water sources, routes, ports, and inland wadis, while also sketching the customs, politics, and rivalries of local tribes and the uneasy negotiations required to move safely through their lands. Along the way, he compares ancient place names to modern sites, weighs evidence of earlier settlements and trade, and tests grand theories against what the desert actually permits. Part adventure, part field report, and part cultural portrait, this is Burton at his most methodical and provocative: a portrait of Midian as both a real landscape and a contested idea, where ambition, scholarship, and survival travel side by side.
Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 1
(00:26:34) Chapter 2
(01:02:40) Chapter 3
(01:46:24) Chapter 4
(02:22:34) Chapter 5
(02:52:29) Chapter 6
(03:36:22) Chapter 7
(04:15:53) Chapter 8
(05:05:51) Chapter 9
(05:35:24) Chapter 10
(06:01:21) Chapter 11
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