Béled-es-siba
Subtitle: sketches and essays of travel and history
By: by W.E.D. Allen, with a foreword by Major-General Lord Edward Gleichen.
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., Limited
Published: 1925
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Voyages and travels.; History, Modern.
Description: "The intrinsic value of this conglomerate of travellings - as the author picturesquely terms them - lies in the appeal they make to every would-be wanderer who, like Mr. Allen, is sick unto death of the well-trodden roads of the extraordinary tourist ... He is away into countries beyond, fairly easy of access yet uncommon of aspect, and presenting problems of race and country undreamed of by the ordinary traveler."--Foreword (p. v.).
Table of contents: title: Béled-es-siba: The Moroccan wilderness.; title: In memoriam. Aubrey Herbert.; title: A vision: The lost garrison.; title: Old places of the southern Slavs.; title: Incidental ways: 1. Cracow of the Poles. 2. The Banat of Temesvar. 3. Commission's paradise. 4. The oldest war.; title: The operations of the allies in the Caucasus, 1853-5 (with "References"); title: The Serbo-Turkish campaign of 1876.; title: The geography of the Treaty of Trianon.; title: The Mountain of Languages (with "References"); title: The man in the panther's skin (with "References")