Download or read book To the Holy Shrines written by Richard Burton and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Great Journeys' allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries and also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. It describes great civilisations, walls of ice, violent jungles, deserts and mountains and multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. This title is a classic in 19th century exploration of Arabian culture.