This excellent selection is ideally suited to a wide audience of general readers. Written after the author had spent two years wandering among the Bedouin nomads, the remarkable book describes Doughty's attempt to reach Mecca, his endurance of extraordinary hardships, and his first-hand observations of Arab life and culture in the 1870s. Unabridged republication of Passages from Arabia Deserta, published by Horace Liveright, Inc., New York, 1931.
The Travels of Ibn Battuta: in the Near East, Asia and Africa, 1325-1354 by Ibn Battuta, Samuel Lee An engrossing account of a 1326 pilgrimage to Mecca provides vivid details of Morocco, Russia, India, China, and elsewhere. "The ultimate in real life adventure stories." — History in Review.
