Desert and the Sown

Klappentext Blending photographs with descriptions of customs and communities! Bell's volume recounts a portion of her groundbreaking 1905 expedition across Syria. Zusammenfassung Blending accounts of customs and communities with over three hundred photographs! Bell leads readers from the Mosque of 'Umar to Kanawat and the Dead Sea. Although often picturesque! the significant is never overshadowed by the spectacular! making this perceptive account of Syria as significant today as it was in 1907. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Jerusalem to Salt; 2. Salt to Tneib; 3. Tneib to Najereh; 4. Jebel el 'Alya to Salkhad; 5. Salkhad to Saleh; 6. Saleh to Damascus; 7. Damascus; 8. Damascus to Homs; 9. Homs to Hamah; 10. Hamah to Apamea; 11. Apamea to Aleppo; 12. Aleppo to Basufan; 13. Basufan to Antioch; 14. Antioch; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Gertrude Lowthian Bell
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.10.2010
• EAN: 9781108021593
• ISBN: 978-1-108-02159-3
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel > Travel guides > Middle East; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Syria, TRAVEL / Middle East / General, Classic Travel Writing, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909