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Louis du Couret was born in France. His father was in the French Army and was a Colonel.
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Life in the Desert: Or, Recollections of Travel in Asia and Africa (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Life in the Desert: Or, Recollections of Travel in Asia and Africa The book herewith offered to the public is a translation of one published at Paris last summer, under the title of "Les Mysteres Du Désert" - a title to which exception was taken by some of the French, reviewers, on the ground of its not being suggestive of the character of the work. As this objection appears to the translator to be well founded, he takes the liberty of introducing the English version by the title of "Life in the Desert," which appears to him to be sufficiently descriptive of the general aim and revelations of the narrative. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Du Couret visited Egypt in 1834, before going to the Ethiopian Empire. He was in the Middle East as of 1836. He worked under Muhammad Ali of Egypt in the military and served in the Battle of Nezib.
He then traveled through Arabia between 1844-1845.
He published the book Life in the Desert, or, Recollections of Travel in Asia and Africa about his travel during that time. He visited Sana"a, Yemen and finished his trip in Sohar, Oman.
He returned to France in 1847. He returned to Egypt in 1867 and died 1 April of that year.
Scholars have questioned the authenticity of his writing and stories, including Heinrich Kiepert.
His visits to the Zande people were later discovered as being false. His work is held in the collection of the Library of Congress.
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Life in the Desert: Or, Recollections of Travel in Asia and Africa (Classic Reprint)
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Life in the Desert: Or, Recollections of Travel in Asia and Africa (Classic Reprint)
