num_pages: 216
description: Traces the exploits of seven extraordinary explorers, from Father Gifford Palgrave, the first Westerner to reach Riyadh, to Thomas Manning, the first European to visit the forbidden mountain fortress of Lhasa
language: English
title: Eccentric Travellers: Excursions with Seven Extraordinary Figures from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
titlecomplete: Eccentric Travellers: Excursions with Seven Extraordinary Figures from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
genres: Travel
ratings_count: 20
publisher: Tarcher