Five years in Damascus
Subtitle: Including an Account of the History, Topography, and Antiquities of That City; with Travels and Researches in Palmyra, Lebanon, and the Hauran
Publisher: J. Murray
Published: 1855
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Damascus (Syria) -- Description; Syria -- Description and travel; Syria -- Antiquities
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.; title: CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. — BEYROUT TO DAMASCUS.; title: CHAPTER II. DAMASCUS. — TOPOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUITIES.; title: CHAPTER III. HISTORY OF DAMASCUS.; title: CHAPTER IV. JOURNEY TO PALMYRA.; title: CHAPTER V. THE VALLEY AND FOUNTAIN OF THE BARADA. — THE ANCIENT ABANA.; title: CHAPTER VI. MOUNT HERMON, AND THE SOURCES OF THE PHARPAB AND JORDAN.; title: CHAPTER VII. HELBON.; title: CHAPTER VIII. EASTERN SLOPES OF AKTILIBANUS, AND PLAIN OF DAMASCUS.; title: CHAPTER IX. THE PLAIN AND LAKES OF DAMASCUS.; title: CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.; title: CHAPTER X. JOURNEY ALONG THE BORDERS OF THE DESERT TO THE JEBEL HAURAN.; title: CHAPTER XI. FROM HIT TO KUNAWAT — THE NORTHERN SECTION OF JEBEL HAURAN.; title: CHAPTER XII. FROM KUNAWAT TO BUSRAH.; title: CHAPTER XIII. BUSRAH TO SULKHAD, KUREIYEH, HEBRAN, AND SUWEIDEH.; title: CHAPTER XIV. SUWEIDEH TO NEJRAN, EDHR'A (EDREI), AND DAMASCUS.; title: CHAPTER XV. BOUNDARIES AND PROVINCES OF BASHAN.; title: CHAPTER XVI. TOUR IN LEBANON, INCLUDING A VISIT TO THE CEDARS AND BA'ALBEK.; title: CHAPTER XVII. TOUR TO HUMS, AND ROUND THE NORTHERN END OF ANTILIBANUS.