Search Results for ‘Middle East’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 51 matches found

Crossing the Sands

Thesiger is first of all a photographer and then a writer. He had to be convinced to write Arabian Sands by someone who had seen these photos. Extracts from this book accompany and comment the pictures...

Danziger's Travels

After walking and hitch-hiking through southern Turkey and the ayatollah's Iran, Danziger entered Afghanistan illegally in the wake of a convoy of Chinese weapons and spent two months dodging Russian...

Married to a Bedouin

“Married to a Bedouin” is Marguerite van Geldermalsen's story of how a New Zealand- born nurse became the wife of Mohammad Abdallah Othman, a Bedouin souvenir-seller of the Manaja(h) tribe, and lived...

Moods of Future Joys - Around the World by Bike, part 1

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“Moods of Future Joys” tells the first part of Alastair Humphreys’ incredible 40,000-mile journey around the world by bike. The journey was an old-fashioned adventure: long, lonely, low...

Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of The Great Explorer

A legend in his own lifetime, the explorer and traveller Wilfred Thesiger journeyed for 60 years in some of the remotest most dangerous places on Earth. His books are widely acclaimed, yet his character...

Magic Bus

In the 1960s hundreds of thousands of young Westerners, inspired by Kerouac and the Beatles, blazed the 'hippie trail' overland from Istanbul to Kathmandu in search of enlightenment and a bit of cheap...

From Beirut To Jerusalem

Winner of the 1989 National Book Award for non-fiction, this extraordinary best-seller is still the most incisive, thought-provoking book ever written about the Middle East.
The twice winner of the...

From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium

In his third book William Dalrymple makes another ambitious journey, this time following in the footsteps of John Moschos, a sixth century Byzantine monk who made records of the various religious communities...

In Xanadu: A Quest

When the Karakoram Highway reopened in 1986 it was again possible to use the mountain road linking Pakistan and China and so to complete an overland trip from Jerusalem to Xanadu for the first time...

The Zanzibar Chest - A Memoir of Love and War

"We should never have come!" so said Aidan Hartley's father in his final days, rising from a bed made of mountain cedar, lashed with thongs of rawhide from an oryx shot many years before. His words...

Travels with a Tangerine

This isn't another piece of travel literature concerned with buying a small holding in Spain, Italy or France and pursuing some horticultural dream.
Rather Tim Mackintosh-Smith, a previous winner of...

Misadventure in the Middle East: Travels as Tramp, Artist & Spy

British artist Henry Hemming set out in a pick-up truck called Yasmine to begin an extraordinary journey through the Middle East post-9/11.
Unsure how he’d make enough money to even stay on the road...

Arabia: Through the Looking Glass

Travels in Bahrain, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Yemen, Egypt and Jordan. With an exceptional eye for the human details of life Jonathan Raban presents the reader with an insight into Arab society and...

Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire

The history of the Ottoman Empire all too often seems to be the preserve of academics. Jason Goodwin ignores this convention, preferring a dramatic and personal approach and bringing the Ottoman Empire...

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

"Seven Pillars of Wisdom" recreates epic events with extraordinary vividness; for anyone enraptured by David Lean’s classic vision of this tumultuous time in Middle Eastern history, this book is an...

The Innocents Abroad

Mark Twain wrote a series of travel letters whilst on a tour of Europe and the Middle East in 1867 with a group of American ‘pilgrims’. These letters later formed the basis of “The Innocents Abroad...

The Barefoot Book of Fairy Tales

Follow a journey to magical and memorable lands with this anthology of classic fairy tales from cultures around the world.
This marvellous collection includes twelve popular and lesser-known fairy tales...

The Way of the World

Part candid description of a road journey, part a meditation on travel, this is the tale of a life-enhancing journey taken in the 1950s from Geneva to the Khyber Pass on very little money. When Nicolas...

Quarantine

Quarantine is a novel based around Jesus’ forty days and nights encountering evil in the wilderness of the Judean desert while searching for God. This telling of the story, however, is markedly different...

A Traveller's History of Turkey

This concise account covers everything from the legendary Flood of Noah, the early civilisation of Catal Huyuk 7000 years before Christ, the treasures of Troy, Alexander the Great, the Romans, Selcuks...