ON THE ERYTHRAEAN SEA.
Translated and edited by Stanley M. Burstein. Pp. xii+202, full page map, appendix, concordance, select bibliography, indices; demy 8vo; blue cloth, lettered & decorated in gilt and ruled in blind; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed; The Hakluyt Society, London, 1989. Hakluyt Second Series, No. 172. *Written in the second century B.C. The first English translation of all three extant versions of the original text, which deals with the exploration of the Red Sea and the regions surrounding it by agents of the Ptolemaic government of Egypt in the century after the death of Alexander the Great. The earliest extensive account of the geography and ethnography of the coasts of northeast Africa and western Arabia. Item #156527
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