Description of Egypt
Lane, Edward William / Thompson, Jason![Description of Egypt](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/300/30025488/CHSBZCOP0330025488.jpg)
The great nineteenth-century British traveler Edward William Lane (1801-76) was the author of a number of highly influential works: An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836), his translation of The Thousand and One Nights (1839-41), Selections from the Kur-an (1843), and the Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93). Yet in 1831, publication of one of his greatest works, Description of Egypt, was delayed, and eventually dropp...