Travellers to the Middle East from Burckhardt to Thesiger

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Author: Geoffrey P. NashISBN: 9780857283931Publisher: Anthem PressYear first published: 01 Jul 2011Pages: 318 Format: Paperback / softback'Travellers to the Middle East from Burkha rdt to Thesiger' is a compendious anthology of travellers' writings produced during the high tide of Britain's involvement in the Middle East. The anthology contains extracts from many of the canonical travel texts of the period, including passages by T. E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell and Robert Byron, as well as many more extracts from both female and male writers. The anthology is also enlivened by the broad geographical span covered, including descriptions of territories in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Arabia and Persia. Show more