From the Sahara to Samarkand

EDITOR'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

EDITOR'S NOTE

1919: Into Java and Sumatra

Java

Java and Sumatra

1919: Between Two Armies in China

Southern China

Chin-Chow

1921: The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara

We Enter on the Great Adventure

The Elusive Dunes

1922: An Attempted Pilgrimage to Mecca

An Adventure that Failed

Being the Account of an Attempted Pilgrimage to Mecca

The Pilgrimage Continued

1923: Odyssey in Yemen and Asir

The Odyssey of a Sambukh

Guests of a Hermit Emir

The Menace of a Crowd

1924: Morocco: The Sultan of the Mountains

Into the Days of Haroun Er Rashid

The Wild Land of Raisuli

Raisuli Himself

1925: A Thousand Miles of Abyssinia

Anticipation

The Arks at Harrar

Chiefly Mules and Marriages

The Palaces of Gondar

1928: A Woman with the Legion—South of the Atlas, Morocco

A Woman with the Legion—South of the Atlas, Morocco

1931: Interlude in Turkey, Iraq, and Persia

Veiled and Unveiled Women of the Middle East

Iraq and the Holy Cities of Shia Islam

Interlude in the Anderun

From Isfahan to Shiraz by Motor-Truck

Through the Mountains of Kurdistan

1937: From Kabul to Samarkand

The Nomads’ Road to Kabul

Kabul

In Kandahar

Travelling with Afghans

Bamyan, Valley of the Giant Buddhas

Through the Hindu Kush to Doab

The Glory of Tamerlane

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