Title: Dolce far niente in Arabia
Description: Georg August Wallin's life and travels in Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula and Persia are presented in four articles by Patricia Berg, Sofia Häggman, Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila and Kaj Öhrnberg respectively. Wallin's impact as an ethnographic observer and linguistic scholar is also examined.
Subjects: Description and travel, Travel, Asianists, Philologists, Voyages and travels, Orientalism, Biography, History
Places: Finland, Arabian Peninsula, Middle East
People: Georg August Wallin
Time periods: 19th century