A splendid narrative of the author's encounters with the Moslem community in Tripoli and its hint...

Ibn Battuta, the greatest of all the medieval travellers, was in Tangier in 1304. At the age of n...

On the 1st January 1900 the British Nation assumed the responsibility of governing the inhabitant...

Kitab al-izah fi'ilm al-nikah b-it-tamam w-al-kamal : literally translated from the Arabic, with ...

Of all those admirable and doughty Victorian lady-travellers Miss Amelia Edwards is surely one of...

Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784-1817) was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 1806 he first travelle...

'In writing his Introduction to the Arabic language I do no pretend to have performed a work of g...

Tunis, Kairouan and Carthage - the very names conjure up visions of 'a hundred dramatic scenes an...

The Hill of the Graces, first published in 1897, is based upon the results of archaeological expl...

Syria: The Desert and the Sown presents a unique and sensitive picture of the Syrian people whils...

What later became known as the 'Tripoli Enterprise' describes the Italian conquest and occupation...

This book first gained popular success during the 1880s when a blossoming public awareness follow...

The 'pilgrimage' alluded to in the title of this work describes a five-month journey undertaken b...

In the early decades of the nineteenth century European interest in Africa was reaching its heigh...

In the early decades of the nineteenth century European interest in Africa was reaching its heigh...

The Afghan Wars 1839-42 & 1878-80

Palmyra and Zenobia

Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-90) is the most celebrated of Victorian scholar-explorers, not l...

Saladin

Zanzibar in Contemporary Times

The Historical Geography of Arabia Volume Two

The Great Sahara

East of the Jordan

A History of Mankind

In the Desert

Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-90) is the most celebrated of Victorian scholar-explorers, not l...

Travels in Arabia

The Historical Geography of Arabia Volume One

Arabic Authors

Narrative of a Ten Years Residence at Tripoli in Africa

The Alhambra

Travels in Syria and the Holy Land

Travels in Arabia

The Spell of Algeria and Tunisia

My Residence at the Court of the Amir

Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians

A book is more interesting in its subject, or more satisfactory in its execution, is seldom issue...

This interesting book contains a series of lectures on comparative religion delivered by Duncan B...

Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784-1817) Swiss by birth, travelled to London in 1806 with an introduc...

'Saracen' was a name employed by medieval writers to describe the Muslims of Syria and Palestine,...

''No husband!' echoed the Mufti. 'And did you cross the seas from England without a husband to ta...

For those familiar with present day Morocco, this volume, first published in 1911, allows a fasci...

This little-know work, first published in 1891 and here reproduced in facsimile, provides a first...

'A French story is told of an Englishman and a Frenchman, who met one rainy night in an inn, and ...

'My recollections of the country are ones that I shall always treasure, in spite of the dangers a...

Reinhart Dozy was born at Leyden in the Netherlands in 1820 and at an early age showed a great th...

Washington Irving was the first American man of letters to receive international recognition. He ...

Washington Irving was the first American man of letters to receive international recognition. He ...