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Valleys of Assassins and Other Persian Travels ((Rev)01 Edition) by Freya Stark Publisher Comments Hailed as a classic upon its first publication in 1934, The Valleys of the Assassins firmly established Freya Stark as one of her generation's most intrepid explorers. The book chronicles her travels into Luristan, the mountainous terrain nestled between... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Personal Narrative of Pilgrimage To Al Madinah and Mecca, Volume II (64 Edition) by Richard Francis Burton Publisher Comments Posing as a wandering dervish, Burton gained admittance to the holy Kaabah and to the tomb of the prophet at Medina and participated in all the rituals of the Hadj (pilgrimage). A treasury of material on Arab life, beliefs, manners and morals, and more... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell Publisher Comments A marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical import She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire:... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage Volume 1 by Richard F Burton Publisher Comments Posing as a wandering dervish, Burton gained admittance to the holy Kaabah and to the tomb of the prophet at Medina and participated in all the rituals of the Hadj (pilgrimage). A treasury of material on Arab life, beliefs, manners and morals, and much... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton by Fawn Mckay Brodie Publisher Comments Starting in a hollowed log of wood--some thousand miles up a river, with an infinitesimal prospect of returning! I ask myself "Why?" and the only echo is "damned fool! . . . the Devil drives!" So Richard Francis Burton, preparing for an exploration of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Baghdad Without a Map by Tony Horwitz Publisher Comments This wild and comic tale of Middle East misadventure is "a very funny and frequently insightful look at the world's most combustible region. Fearlessness is a valuable quality in a travel writer, and Mr. Horwitz...seems as intrepid as they come". (The... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron Publisher Comments In 1933 the delightfully eccentric Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana -the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach Publisher Comments Turning away from the privileged world of the "eminent Victorians," Gertrude Bell (18681926) explored, mapped, and excavated the world of the Arabs. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in obtaining... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark (Modern Library) by Jane F Geniesse Publisher Comments Freya Stark — traveler, explorer, Arabist, and woman of letters — began the extraordinary adventures that would glamorize her — and would catapult her into public life for the next sixty years — in 1927. And with the publication of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey by Alison Wearing Publisher Comments With a love of travel, Alison Wearing invites us to journey with her to Iran--a country that few Westerners have a chance to see. Traveling with a male friend, in the guise of a couple on their honeymoon, Wearing set out on her own at every available... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Adventures of Ibn Battuta Rev Edition by Ross E Dunn Publisher Comments Known as the greatest traveler of premodern times, Abu Abdallah ibn Battuta was born in Morocco in 1304 and educated in Islamic law. At the age of twenty-one, he left home to make the holy pilgrimage to Mecca. This was only the first of a series of... (read more) List Price $30.25 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus by Robert D Kaplan Publisher Comments At its peak, the Ottoman empire stretched from Hungary to the Gulf of Aden to the Caspian Sea. Informed by a lifetime of travel and exploration, Eastward to Tartary takes you on a spellbinding journey into the heart of that still-unsettled region, a... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics) by Roxanne L Euben Publisher Comments The contemporary world is increasingly defined by dizzying flows of people and ideas. But while Western travel is associated with a pioneering spirit of discovery, the dominant image of Muslim mobility is the jihadi who travels not to learn but to... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Gertrude Bell : the Arabian Diaries, 1913-1914 (00 Edition) by Rosemary (ed.) O'brien Publisher Comments Gertrude Bell's Arabian diaries, published here for the first time, rank as one of the great travel narratives, carrying readers along on a desperate and heroic journey that foreshadows the emergence of the future imperial servant in Baghdad in the l920s.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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A Winter in Arabia by Freya Stark Publisher Comments One of the most unconventional and courageous explorers of her time, Freya Stark chronicled her extraordinary Travels in the Near East, establishing herself as a twentieth century heroine. A Winter in Arabia recounts her 1937-8 expedition in what is now... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered Teh Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Nights to th by Edward Rice Publisher Comments A New York Times best-seller when it was first published, Rice's biography is the gripping story of a fierce, magnetic, and brilliant man whose real-life accomplishments are the stuff of legend. Rice retraces Burton's steps as the first European... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Persian Pictures by Gertrude Bell Publisher Comments 'Here in the dust and the sunshine is an epitome of the living East, and standing unnoticed in a doorway, you will admit that you have not travelled in vain. But as the procession of people flies past you, you will realize what a gulf lies between you... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Drinking Arak Off an Ayatollah's Beard: A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan by Nicholas Jubber Publisher Comments An engrossing blend of travel writing and history, Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah’s Beard traces one man’s adventure-filled journey through today’s Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia, and describes his remarkable attempt to make sense... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Travels with a Tangerine: From Morocco to Turkey in the Footsteps of Islam's Greatest Traveler by Tim Mackintosh Smith Publisher Comments In 1325, the great Arab traveler Ibn Battutah set out from his native Tangier in North Africa on pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned nearly thirty years later, he had seen most of the known world, covering three times the distance allegedly... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century, with a New Preface by Ross E E Dunn Publisher Comments Ross Dunn here recounts the great traveler's remarkable career, interpreting it within the cultural and social context of Islamic society and giving the reader both a biography of an extraordinary personality and a study of the hemispheric dimensions of... (read more) List Price $32.75 Your price: $27.95 New - Trade Paper
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