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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...
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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...
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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 (1868—1926) explored, mapped, and excavated the world of the Arabs. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in...
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Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
by Georgina Howell Publisher Comments Gertrude Bell was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire and was the driving force behind the creation of modern-day Iraq. This work is a richly compelling portrait of a woman who transcended the restrictions of her class and times and...
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The Marsh Arabs
by Wilfred Thesiger Publisher Comments Detailing the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq--long before they were almost completely wiped out by Saddam Hussein--Thesiger pays tribute to the hospitality, loyalty, courage, and endurance of the people, and describes their way of...
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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:...
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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...
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The Desert and the Sown
by Gertrude Lowthian Bell Publisher Comments Passionate about Arabia, then an inhospitable land of nomadic and warring tribes under Turkish control, Bell wrote this account of her extraordinary 1905 trip across the Syrian Desert from Jericho to Antioch....
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Gertrude Bell: The Arabian Diaries, 1913-1914
by Gertrude Lowth Bell 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....
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Arabian Sands
by Wilfred Thesiger Publisher Comments In the spirit of T.E. Lawrence, Thesiger set out to explore the deserts of Arabia, traveling among peoples who had never seen a European and considered it their duty to kill Christian infidels. His now-classic account is invaluable to understanding the...
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Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey
by V S Naipaul
Publisher Comments On the basis of his seven-month journey across the Asian continent. V.S. Naipaul here explores the life, the culture and the current ferment inside four nations of Islam: Iran, where the hysteria and rage of revolution continues; Pakistan, trageically...
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Travels With a Tangerine : From Morocco To Turkey in the Footsteps of Islam's Greatest Traveler (04 Edition)
by Tim Mackintosh 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...
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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...
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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...
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Children of Jihad (07 Edition)
by Cohen Publisher Comments Defying foreign government orders and interviewing terrorists face to face, a young American tours hostile lands to learn about Middle Eastern youth--and uncovers a subculture that defies every stereotype. Eight-page b&w photo insert....
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In Search of Nomads: An Anglo-American Obsession from Hester Stanhope to Bruce Chatwin
by John Ure Publisher Comments For centuries, settled peoples have contemplated nomads with fascination and envy, or with disdain and fear. Both Americans and the British have had an obsession with nomadic peoples, stemming from their own wanderlust and admiration for the unfettered...
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From a Persian Tea House: Travels in Old Iran
by Michael Carroll Publisher Comments An evocative and beautifully written account of Michael Carroll's journey to Iran that took him through the heart of the country -- from the Taurus mountains to the Gulf of Oman, during the years following the CIA-led coup of 1953. He explores countless...
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Sir Richard Burton's Travels in Arabia and Africa: Four Lectures from a Huntington Library Manuscript
by John Hayman Publisher Comments Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890)--explorer, linguist, anthropologist--was one of the most fascinating figures of the Victorian era. In 1866, while serving as British consul in Brazil, he presented four lectures on the highlights of his travels in Arabia...
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Sir Richard Burton's Travels in Arabia and Africa : Four Lectures From a Huntington Library Manuscript (05 Edition)
by Richard Burton Publisher Comments Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890)--explorer, linguist, anthropologist--was one of the most fascinating figures of the Victorian era. In 1866, while serving as British consul in Brazil, he presented four lectures on the highlights of his travels in Arabia...
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House of Tears: Westerners' Adventures in Islamic Lands (Explorers Club)
by John Hughes Publisher Comments Classic tales of Westerners who crossed behind the...
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