Travellers to the Middle East from Burckhardt to Thesiger : an anthology / edited by Geoffrey Nash.

Includes bibliographical references.

The coming of empire, 1800-1879 -- David Urquhart : The spirit of the East -- Alexander Kinglake : Eothen -- Eliot Warburton : The crescent and the cross -- Harriet Martineau : Eastern life, present and past -- Robert Curzon : visits to monasteries of the Levant -- Lucie Duff Gordon : Letters from Egypt -- John Lewis Burckhardt : Travels in Arabia -- J.R. Wellsted : Travels in Arabia -- Richard Burton : Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah -- W.G. Palgrave : Narrative of a year's journey to central and eastern Arabia -- Lady Anne Blunt : A pilgrimage to Nejd -- Charles Doughty : Travels in Arabia Deserta -- James Morier : A journey through Persia, Armenia and Asia Minor -- John Malcolm : Sketches of Persia -- James Baillie Fraser : Travels in the Persian provinces of the Caspian -- Lady Sheil : Glimpses of life and manners in Persia -- Arminius Vambery : Travels in Central Asia -- Austen Henry Layard : Early adventures in Persia, Susiana and Babylonia.

Colonialism and resistance, 1880-1950 -- D.G. Hogarth : A wandering scholar in the Levant -- Mark Sykes : Dar-ul-Islam -- Charles Roden Buxton : Turkey in revolution -- Grace Ellison : An Englishwoman in a Turkish harem -- C.S. Jarvis : Three deserts -- Thomas Hodgkin : Letters from Palestine, 1932-1936 -- Percy Cox : 'Some excursions in Oman' -- T.E. Lawrence : Revolt in the desert -- Ameen Rihani : Ibn Sa'oud of Arabia : his people and his land -- Freya Stark : The southern gates of Arabia -- Bertram Thomas : Arabia felix -- Wilfred Thesiger : Arabian sands -- George Nathaniel Curzon : Persia and the Persian question -- E.G. Browne : A year amongst the Persians -- Gertrude Bell : Persian letters -- Valentine Chirol : The Middle East question -- Robert Byron : The road to Oxiana -- Ella Maillart : The cruel way.