Travels in Arabia Deserta

The second of two volumes of Charles Doughty's classic account of travels in Arabia in the late nineteenth century.

Charles Montagu Doughty (Author)

9781108009478, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 June 2010

712 pages, 10 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 4.6 cm, 1.03 kg

Western exploration of the Arabian Desert began in the mid-eighteenth century, but it was not until the nineteenth century that the British officers of the Indian colonial government undertook surveys of the areas remote from the major pilgrimage routes. Charles Doughty (1843–1926) spent two years among various nomad tribes and wrote in 1888 what would be the first comprehensive Western work on the geography of Arabia, in an attempt, as he says in the preface, to 'set forth faithfully some parcel of the soil of Arabia smelling of sàmn and camels'. His classic and justly famous account is a fantastic piece of travel writing that shows full understanding of the area, the people and all aspects of nomadic life in the desert.

1. Ibn Rashid's town
2. Life in Hayil
3. Depart from Hayil
4. Kheybar
5. The Kheyabara
6. The Medina life at Kheybar
7. Galla-land
8. Deliverance from Kheybar
9. Desert journey to Hayil
10. The Shammar and Harb deserts in Nejd
11. Journey to El-Kasim
Appendix to Chapter 11
12. Aneyza
13. Life in Aneyza
14. The Christian stranger driven from Aneyza, and recalled
Appendix to Chapter 14
15. Wars of Aneyza
16. Set out from El-Kasim, with the butter caravan from Mecca
17. Tayif
18. Wady Fatima
Appendix to Volume 2.

Subject Areas: Middle Eastern history [HBJF1]