From the Sahara to Samarkand : selected travel writings of Rosita Forbes, 1919-1937 / edited with an introduction by Margaret Bald.

By: Forbes, Rosita
Contributor(s): Bald, Margaret
Publisher: Mount Jackson, VA : Axios, c2010Description: xxxv, 369 p., [15] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9781604190304 (pbk.)Subject(s): 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 centuryDDC classification: 915.04/41092 | B LOC classification: DS9 | .F67 2010
Contents:
1919 : into Java and Sumatra -- Java -- Java and Sumatra -- 1919 : between two armies in China -- Southern China -- Chin-Chow -- 1921 : the secret of the Sahara : Kufara -- We enter on the great adventure -- The elusive dunes -- 1922 : an attempted pilgrimage to Mecca -- An adventure that failed -- Being the account of an attempted pilgrimage to Mecca -- The pilgrimage continued -- 1923 : odyssey in Yemen and Asir -- The odyssey of a sambukh -- Guests of a hermit emir -- The menace of a crowd -- 1924 : Morocco : the sultan of the mountains -- Into the days of Haroun Er Rashid -- The wild land of Raisuli -- Raisuli himself -- 1925 : a thousand miles of Abyssinia -- Anticipation -- The arks at Harar -- Chiefly mules and marriages -- The palaces of Gondar -- 1928 : a woman with the Legion : south of the Atlas, Morocco -- 1931 : interlude in Turkey, Iraq, and Persia -- Veiled and unveiled women of the Middle East -- Iraq and the holy cities of Shia Islam -- Interlude in the Anderun -- From Isfahan to Shiraz by motor-truck -- Through the mountains of Kurdistan -- 1937 : from Kabul to Samarkand -- The nomads' road to Kabul -- Kabul -- In Kandahar -- Travelling with Afghans -- Bamyan, valley of the giant Buddhas -- Through the Hindu Kush to Doab -- The glory of Tamerlane.
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1919 : into Java and Sumatra -- Java -- Java and Sumatra -- 1919 : between two armies in China -- Southern China -- Chin-Chow -- 1921 : the secret of the Sahara : Kufara -- We enter on the great adventure -- The elusive dunes -- 1922 : an attempted pilgrimage to Mecca -- An adventure that failed -- Being the account of an attempted pilgrimage to Mecca -- The pilgrimage continued -- 1923 : odyssey in Yemen and Asir -- The odyssey of a sambukh -- Guests of a hermit emir -- The menace of a crowd -- 1924 : Morocco : the sultan of the mountains -- Into the days of Haroun Er Rashid -- The wild land of Raisuli -- Raisuli himself -- 1925 : a thousand miles of Abyssinia -- Anticipation -- The arks at Harar -- Chiefly mules and marriages -- The palaces of Gondar -- 1928 : a woman with the Legion : south of the Atlas, Morocco -- 1931 : interlude in Turkey, Iraq, and Persia -- Veiled and unveiled women of the Middle East -- Iraq and the holy cities of Shia Islam -- Interlude in the Anderun -- From Isfahan to Shiraz by motor-truck -- Through the mountains of Kurdistan -- 1937 : from Kabul to Samarkand -- The nomads' road to Kabul -- Kabul -- In Kandahar -- Travelling with Afghans -- Bamyan, valley of the giant Buddhas -- Through the Hindu Kush to Doab -- The glory of Tamerlane.

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