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

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The extraordinary Rosita Forbes explored the Libyan desert, sailed across the Red Sea, and trekked more than a thousand miles into remote Abyssinia. She wrote some thirty books about these and other journeys, as well as biographies, histories, novels, and memoirs. She was a widely published journalist and commentator on international affairs, a popular lecturer, and a documentary filmmaker. Her story deserves to be retold and her writing discovered by a new generation.;Praise for From the Sahara to Samarkand; Praise for the Writings of Rosita Forbes; Editor's Acknowledgments; Introduction; Editor's Note; 1919: Into Java and Sumatra; 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. Praise for From the Sahara to Samarkand Praise for the Writings of Rosita Forbes Editor's Acknowledgments Introduction Editor's Note 1919: Into Java and Sumatra 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 MountainsInto 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 SamarkandThe 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 Books by Rosita Forbes About the Editor Photo Album Notes.