Author: Lady Anne Blunt
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab Race is an inspiring 2-volume historical and travel account of the journey in the Middle East based on the journals of Lady Anne Blunt edited by her husband and companion Wilfrid, first published in 1881. Nejd, in the imagination of the Bedouins of the North, is a region of romance, the cradle of their race and of their ideas of chivalry. "We spent a week at Damascus, a week not altogether of pleasure, although it was to be our last of civilised life. We had an immense number of things to buy and arrange and think over, before starting on so serious a journey as this, which we knew must be very unlike the pleasure trip of last year. We could not afford to leave anything to chance with the prospect of a three months' wandering, and a thousand miles of desert, where it was impossible to count upon fresh supplies even of the commonest necessaries of life. Jôf, the first station on our road, was four hundred miles off, and then we must cross the Nefûd, with its two hundred miles of sand, before we could get to Nejd. The return journey, too, to the Persian Gulf, would have to be made without coming to anything so European as a Turkish town. Nobody could tell us what supplies were to be had in Nejd, beyond dates and corn. Mr. Palgrave's account of Jebel Shammar was, in fact, the only guide we had to go on, and its accuracy had been so much doubted that we felt obliged to take into consideration the possibility of finding the Nejd towns mere oases, and their cultivation only that of the date."

Author: Anne Isabella N. Blunt (baroness Wentworth.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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Author: Lady Anne Blunt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Author: Lady Anne Blunt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Author: Lady Anne Blunt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 642

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Author: Anne Blunt
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 504061702X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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Author: Angela Cheater
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134650485
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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This book uses ethnographic analysis to examine the issues surrounding power and empowerment. It presents material drawn from across the world to explore how traditionally disempowered groups gain influence in multicultural settings.

Author: National library of Ireland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 706

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Author: Lady Anne Blunt
Publisher: دائرة الثقافة والسياحة – أبوظبي، مركز أبوظبي للغة العربية، إصدارات
ISBN: 9948172310
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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"الرّحّالة البريطانية الليدي آن بلنت سيّدة مثقّفة ورحّالة جريئة صادقة أضافت إلى أدب الرّحلات الغربية في الشرق نصوص رحلتين فريدتين إلى الجزيرة الفُراتية وشمالي جزيرة العرب، فكانت من أوائل الرّائدات لسلسلة من الرّحّالات النساء زُرن مشرقنا العربي وكتبن عنه. بعدما نشرنا كتاب آن "عشائر بدو الفُرات"، يسرّنا أن نردفه بهذا الكتاب حول رحلتها الثانية والأخيرة برفقة زوجها ولفريد، فيه تروي بقالب شائق ولغة سلسلة ممتعة كيف عقدا العزم على القيام برحلة أخطر وأبعد إلى نجد "مهد قبائل العرب"، لما سمعاه عنها من أبناء العشائر في الجزيرة الفُراتية، لكونها منبع أصولهم وموئل عزّهم، كانت الفكرة تنطوي على مخاطرة كبيرة ومغامرة رائعة استثارت إهتمام الزّوجين، فما لبثا في شتاء عام 1878 أن واعدا ""خويهما"" البدوي التّدمُري محمد العبد الله العرُوق، ليقود القافلة من دمشق إلى شمالي جزيرة العرب، مروراً بحوران واللّجاة والحماد ووادي السرحان والجوف وصحراء النفود، حتى مدينة حائل معقل الأمير محمد بن عبد الله آل رشيد، فكانا رابع الرّحّالين الغربيين الذين زاروا حائل آنذاك، من بعد بالغريف عام 1862 وغوارماني عام 1864 وداوتي عام 1877."

Author: Andrew Goudie
Publisher:
ISBN: 1900971488
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 355

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Desert exploration, like climbing Everest or polar expeditions, is not for the faint-hearted, and many of the vivid tales within this fascinating biographical history end in tragedy. However, the informative and absorbing descriptions of the extraordinary journeys, challenges and achievements of these intrepid figures, are captivating. They risked their lives variously for good old fashioned epic adventure, solitude, fame, the answer to mythical questions and some were even spies. They experienced fear, excitement and hardship in their journeys into the unknown. There are many books on exploration but remarkably few on desert exploration. Moreover, some of the great desert explorers of the last three hundred years are now very little remembered or appreciated in comparison, say, with those who ventured to the poles, climbed Everest, or sought the source of the Nile. Yet, crossing unknown deserts is no less challenging. This volume finally brings these Great Desert Explorers into the limelight, with short, illustrated biographies of around 60 of the most interesting, intrepid and important explorers of the world’s greatest deserts. There is also a brief introduction to each desert region. The many original quotations, illustrations and maps, contemporary figures, as well as plates of a range of desert landscapes make this a colourful, lively and informative read.