Talk:Carsten Niebuhr

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French translation: Recueil de questions, propos&eacute;es &agrave; une soci&eacute;t&eacute; de savants, qui par ordre de Sa Majest&eacute; danoise font le voyage de l'Arabie (1774). http://www.archive.org/details/recueildequesti00schogoog English Translation: Niebuhr, Carsten. Travels through Arabia and Other Countries in the East. Edinburgh: Printed for R. Morison, 1792. The author, a German in the service of the king of Denmark, was the sole survivor of a group of five who traveled through Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula in 1761 to 1763. This version is an abridged translation by Robert Heron of Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und andern umliegenden Ländern (Copenhagen: N. Möller, 1774-78). http://www.dinsdoc.com/wvmw-2.htm

See also in Danish:

Stig T. Rasmussen [red]: Den arabiske rejse 1761-1767: En dansk ekpedition set i videnskabshistorisk perspektiv. Rosinante, 1990 Holger Terp, editor. Th Danish Peace Academy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.161.33.145 (talk) 11:51, 14 March 2011 (UTC)