Travellers to the Middle East from Burckhardt to Thesiger
Subtitle: an anthology
By: edited by Geoffrey Nash
Series: Anthem studies in travel
Publisher: New York; Anthem Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781843317920
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The coming of empire, 1800-1879; title: David Urquhart : The spirit of the East; title: Alexander Kinglake : Eothen; title: Eliot Warburton : The crescent and the cross; title: Harriet Martineau : Eastern life, present and past; title: Robert Curzon : visits to monasteries of the Levant; title: Lucie Duff Gordon : Letters from Egypt; title: John Lewis Burckhardt : Travels in Arabia; title: J.R. Wellsted : Travels in Arabia; title: Richard Burton : Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah; title: W.G. Palgrave : Narrative of a year's journey to central and eastern Arabia; title: Lady Anne Blunt : A pilgrimage to Nejd; title: Charles Doughty : Travels in Arabia Deserta; title: James Morier : A journey through Persia, Armenia and Asia Minor; title: John Malcolm : Sketches of Persia; title: James Baillie Fraser : Travels in the Persian provinces of the Caspian; title: Lady Sheil : Glimpses of life and manners in Persia; title: Arminius Vambery : Travels in Central Asia; title: Austen Henry Layard : Early adventures in Persia, Susiana and Babylonia.; title: Colonialism and resistance, 1880-1950; title: D.G. Hogarth : A wandering scholar in the Levant; title: Mark Sykes : Dar-ul-Islam; title: Charles Roden Buxton : Turkey in revolution; title: Grace Ellison : An Englishwoman in a Turkish harem; title: C.S. Jarvis : Three deserts; title: Thomas Hodgkin : Letters from Palestine, 1932-1936; title: Percy Cox : 'Some excursions in Oman'; title: T.E. Lawrence : Revolt in the desert; title: Ameen Rihani : Ibn Sa'oud of Arabia : his people and his land; title: Freya Stark : The southern gates of Arabia; title: Bertram Thomas : Arabia felix; title: Wilfred Thesiger : Arabian sands; title: George Nathaniel Curzon : Persia and the Persian question; title: E.G. Browne : A year amongst the Persians; title: Gertrude Bell : Persian letters; title: Valentine Chirol : The Middle East question; title: Robert Byron : The road to Oxiana; title: Ella Maillart : The cruel way.