From the Sahara to Samarkand Selected Travel Writings of Rosita Forbes 1919-1937

by Forbes, Rosita; Bald, Margaret; Bald, Margaret

• ISBN13: 9781604190304
• ISBN10: 1604190302
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-01
• Publisher: Axios Pr

Summary

In the 1920s and '30s, the extraordinary Rosita Forbes explored the Libyan desert, sailed across the Red Sea to Yemen, trekked more than a thousand miles into remote Abyssinia, and traveled in Southeast Asia and China, Morocco, Turkey, Iraq, Persia, and Afghanistan. She wrote some thirty books about these and other journeys, was a widely published journalist, a documentary filmmaker, and the editor of a pioneering women's magazine.

Table of Contents

Editor's Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
Editor's Note	p. xxxv
1919: Into Java and Sumatra
Java	p. 3
Java and Sumatra	p. 9
1919: Between Two Armies in China
Southern China	p. 17
Chin-Chow	p. 27
1921: The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara
We Enter on the Great Adventure	p. 39
The Elusive Dunes	p. 59
1922: An Attempted Pilgrimage to Mecca
An Adventure that Failed	p. 81
Being the Account of an Attempted Pilgrimage to Mecca	p. 91
The Pilgrimage Continued	p. 103
1923: Odyssey in Yemen and Asir
The Odyssey of a Sambukh	p. 119
Guests of a Hermit Emir	p. 131
The Menace of a Crowd	p. 141
1924: Morocco: The Sultan of the Mountains
Into the Days of Haroun Er Rashid	p. 153
The Wild Land of Raisuli	p. 161
Raisuli Himself	p. 171
1925: A Thousand Miles of Abyssinia
Anticipation	p. 179
The Arks at Harrar	p. 191
Chiefly Mules and Marriages	p. 203
The Palaces of Gondar	p. 215
1928: A Woman with the Legion-South of the Atlas, Morocco
A Woman with the Legion-South of the Atlas, Morocco	p. 231
1931: Interlude in Turkey, Iraq, and Persia
Veiled and Unveiled Women of the Middle East	p. 255
Iraq and the Holy Cities of Shia Islam	p. 265
Interlude in the Anderun	p. 279
From Isfahan to Shiraz by Motor-Truck	p. 291
Through the Mountains of Kurdistan	p. 301
1937: From Kabul to Samarkand
The Nomads' Road to Kabul	p. 321
Kabul	p. 327
In Kandahar	p. 331
Travelling with Afghans	p. 335
Bamyan, Valley of the Giant Buddhas	p. 343
Through the Hindu Kush to Doab	p. 349
The Glory of Tamerlane	p. 357
Books by Rosita Forbes	p. 367
About the Editor	p. 369
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