A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab Race. Vol. 1 [of 2]
Author : Anne Blunt
Publisher : Litres
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,39 MB
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 5040657099
Author : Anne Blunt
Publisher : Litres
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,39 MB
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 5040657099
Author : Lady Anne Blunt
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Page : 336 pages
File Size : 20,88 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Arabian Peninsula
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Author : Lady Anne Blunt
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 22,70 MB
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : History
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A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab Race is an inspiring 2-volume historical and travel account of the journey in the Middle East based on the journals of Lady Anne Blunt edited by her husband and companion Wilfrid, first published in 1881. Nejd, in the imagination of the Bedouins of the North, is a region of romance, the cradle of their race and of their ideas of chivalry. This carefully crafted e-artnow ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents._x000D_ "We spent a week at Damascus, a week not altogether of pleasure, although it was to be our last of civilised life. We had an immense number of things to buy and arrange and think over, before starting on so serious a journey as this, which we knew must be very unlike the pleasure trip of last year. We could not afford to leave anything to chance with the prospect of a three months' wandering, and a thousand miles of desert, where it was impossible to count upon fresh supplies even of the commonest necessaries of life. Jôf, the first station on our road, was four hundred miles off, and then we must cross the Nefûd, with its two hundred miles of sand, before we could get to Nejd. The return journey, too, to the Persian Gulf, would have to be made without coming to anything so European as a Turkish town. Nobody could tell us what supplies were to be had in Nejd, beyond dates and corn. Mr. Palgrave's account of Jebel Shammar was, in fact, the only guide we had to go on, and its accuracy had been so much doubted that we felt obliged to take into consideration the possibility of finding the Nejd towns mere oases, and their cultivation only that of the date."
Author : Lady Anne Blunt
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,22 MB
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : History
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A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab Race is an inspiring 2-volume historical and travel account of the journey in the Middle East based on the journals of Lady Anne Blunt edited by her husband and companion Wilfrid, first published in 1881. Nejd, in the imagination of the Bedouins of the North, is a region of romance, the cradle of their race and of their ideas of chivalry. "We spent a week at Damascus, a week not altogether of pleasure, although it was to be our last of civilised life. We had an immense number of things to buy and arrange and think over, before starting on so serious a journey as this, which we knew must be very unlike the pleasure trip of last year. We could not afford to leave anything to chance with the prospect of a three months' wandering, and a thousand miles of desert, where it was impossible to count upon fresh supplies even of the commonest necessaries of life. Jôf, the first station on our road, was four hundred miles off, and then we must cross the Nefûd, with its two hundred miles of sand, before we could get to Nejd. The return journey, too, to the Persian Gulf, would have to be made without coming to anything so European as a Turkish town. Nobody could tell us what supplies were to be had in Nejd, beyond dates and corn. Mr. Palgrave's account of Jebel Shammar was, in fact, the only guide we had to go on, and its accuracy had been so much doubted that we felt obliged to take into consideration the possibility of finding the Nejd towns mere oases, and their cultivation only that of the date."
Author : London Library
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Page : 1188 pages
File Size : 33,99 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Library catalogs
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Publisher :
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 35,90 MB
Release : 1881
Category : England
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Page : 844 pages
File Size : 25,7 MB
Release : 1882
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Page : 1810 pages
File Size : 42,95 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Bibliography
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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Author : Abdulla M. Lutfiyya
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 16,51 MB
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 3110815745
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Page : 1748 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Bibliography
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