by Ali Bey · ZETA BOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498722642
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«Viajes por Marruecos» is Alí Bey's travel account, published by Zeta Bolsillo in paperback (592 pages, in Spanish).
The book recounts the adventure of Domingo Badía Leblich, known as Alí Bey, an agent of the Spanish crown who traveled through North Africa posing as a Muslim prince and was the first European to visit and describe Mecca. Salvador Barberá follows his itinerary and cross-checks the traveler's observations, offering a rigorous version of an adventure distorted in 1814 for political reasons.
Edition by Salvador Barberá Fraguas, in the Grandes Viajes collection from Zeta Bolsillo. The original work was published in 1814.
For readers interested in the history of exploration, real travel accounts and North Africa.
Domingo Francisco Jorge Badía y Leblich, better known by his pseudonym Ali Bey el Abbassi, was a Spanish explorer, soldier, and spy in the early 19th century. He supported the French occupation of Spain and worked for the Bonapartist administration, but he is principally known for his travels in North Africa and the Middle East. He witnessed the Saudi conquest of Mecca in 1807.
