Search Results for ‘Middle East’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Classic Travel Literature’ - 8 matches found

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 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...

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...

The Road to Oxiana

This the diary Byron kept while travelling through Persia and Afghanistan in 1933-34. With lots of detail and deep insight, Byron provides us with a vivid account of the people and places he comes across...

Portrait of A Turkish Family

"Portrait of a Turkish Family" is a masterpiece of memoir writing, justly deserving of it's reprinting here by publishers Eland. Irfan Orga was born into a prosperous family in the twilight of the Ottoman...

The Caravan Moves On - Three Weeks among Turkish Nomads

In the “Caravan Moves On”, Irfan Orga journeys to the centre of Turkey to stay with the Yürük nomads in the High Taurus mountains.
He learns their traditions, listens to their legends, and lives to...