House of Tears
Subtitle: Westerners' Adventures in Islamic Lands (Explorers Club Book)
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Published: December 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781592287994
Subjects: Travel writing; Travelers; History - General History; History; History: World; Middle East; United States; Middle East - General; History / Middle East; Adventure and adventurers; Europe
First sentence: Morocco: 1720. Thousand of ears, hacked from severed heads, are rotting on the walls of Meknes.