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westerners adventures in Islamic lands

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271

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House of tears: westerners adventures in Islamic lands
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Table of Contents

Introduction / by John Hughes
Adventures of Thomas Pellow / by Thomas Pellow
The horde of the Welād Slimān / by Heinrich Barth
From al-Suwayrkiyah to Meccah / by Sir Richard Burton
The desert of devils / by Armin Vambery
"Abou Do's blade tastes blood" / by Sir Samuel Baker
"The new Pilgrim's progress" / by Mark Twain
"The khan of Khiva" / by lieutenant colonel Frederick Gustavus Burnaby
"Ismail deserts" / by Lady Anne Blunt
"The Aryans of Sarikol" / by Ella Sykes
"My ride to Sheshouan" / by Walter B. Harris
"To Marrakesh on a bicycle" / by Budgett Meakin
"Morocco, the land of the extreme west" / by Ion Perdicaris
"Loading a camel" / by captain A.H.W. Haywood
"Approaching a perilous pass" / by P.T. Etherton
"A bloodthirsty band of brigands" / by Ernest H. Griffin
"Toward the city of emperors" / by John Reed
"Lawrence the train-wrecker" / by Lowell Thomas
"The defense of Kotur-Dagh" / by Rafael de Nogales
"Escape" / by Albert Bartels
"Intelligence in Transcaucasia" / by colonel Alfred Rawlinson
"Mysterious gorges" / by captain L.V.S. Blacker
"A faulty guide on a waterless way" / by Rosita Forbes
"The siege of the Qeshlah" / by Zetton Buchanan
"Shooting expeditions" / by George-Marie Haardt and Lucien Audouin-Dubreuil
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes index.
"An Explorers Club Book".

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Guilford, Conn

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
910/.917/67
Library of Congress
DS35.57 .H68 2005, DS35.57.H68 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
271

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Open Library
OL3406553M
Internet Archive
houseoftearswest0000unse
ISBN 10
1592287999
LCCN
2005022243
OCLC/WorldCat
61211354
Library Thing
5894238
Goodreads
1303162

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