From the Sahara to Samarkand
Subtitle: the remarkable journeys of Rosita Forbes : selected travel writings, 1919-1937
By: edited with an introduction by Margaret Bald.
Contributors: Bald, Margaret.
Publisher: Axios
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Mount Jackson, VA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604190304
Subjects: Forbes, Rosita -- Travel -- Asia; Forbes, Rosita -- Travel -- Middle East; Women travelers -- Biography; Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography; Asia -- Description and travel; Middle East -- Description and travel; Asia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; Middle East -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; Middle East -- Description and travel
Genres: Biography
Notes: Include bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1919 : into Java and Sumatra; title: Java; title: Java and Sumatra; title: 1919 : between two armies in China; title: Southern China; title: Chin-Chow; title: 1921 : the secret of the Sahara : Kufara; title: We enter on the great adventure; title: The elusive dunes; title: 1922 : an attempted pilgrimage to Mecca; title: An adventure that failed; title: Being the account of an attempted pilgrimage to Mecca; title: The pilgrimage continued; title: 1923 : odyssey in Yemen and Asir; title: The odyssey of a sambukh; title: Guests of a hermit emir; title: The menace of a crowd; title: 1924 : Morocco : the sultan of the mountains; title: Into the days of Haroun Er Rashid; title: The wild land of Raisuli; title: Raisuli himself; title: 1925 : a thousand miles of Abyssinia; title: Anticipation; title: The arks at Harar; title: Chiefly mules and marriages; title: The palaces of Gondar; title: 1928 : a woman with the Legion : south of the Atlas, Morocco; title: 1931 : interlude in Turkey, Iraq, and Persia; title: Veiled and unveiled women of the Middle East; title: Iraq and the holy cities of Shia Islam; title: Interlude in the Anderun; title: From Isfahan to Shiraz by motor-truck; title: Through the mountains of Kurdistan; title: 1937 : from Kabul to Samarkand; title: The nomads' road to Kabul; title: Kabul; title: In Kandahar; title: Travelling with Afghans; title: Bamyan, valley of the giant Buddhas; title: Through the Hindu Kush to Doab; title: The glory of Tamerlane.