Syria, the Desert & the Sown
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About This Book
Passionate about Arabia, then an inhospitable land of nomadic and warring tribes under Turkish control, Bell wrote this account of her extraordinary 1905 trip across the Syrian Desert from Jericho to Antioch.
Chapters (23)
- THE DESERT AND THE SOWN
- SYRIA THE DESERT & THE SOWN
- GERTRUDE LOWTHIAN BELL
- NEW YORK E.P. DUTTON AND COMPANY
- To A. C. L. WHO KNOWS THE HEART OF THE EAST
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- INDEX
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