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  • A Brief Introduction to the Arabic Alphabet

    Its Origins and Various Forms

    by John F. Healey, G. Rex Smith ...
    Series series Brief Introduction
    The Arabic alphabet has a rich history, one that is closely linked with the development of culture and society in the Middle East. In this comprehensive introduction the authors trace the origins of the Arabic alphabet back to Aramaic, which also gave rise to the Hebrew and Greek alphabets. Using detailed illustrations the authors investigate early Arabic papyri and early Islamic inscriptions as ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Way to Isfahan

    And Passing through Muscat - An Account of a Trip to Persia and Oman in 1900

    by Pierre Loti ...
    Translated by G. Rex Smith ...
    From 17 April, 1900, to 6 June of that year, Pierre Loti travelled in a private capacity from Bushire on the Persian Gulf, northwards through Shiraz, Persepolis, Isfahan and Tehran, before returning via the Caspian Sea to Europe. This is the personal day-by-day account of his journey, the hardships of the mountainous terrain and the empty desert. Loti excels in his descriptions of the world around ... Read more

    $51.58 CAD

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  • The Road to Oxiana

    by Robert Byron ...
    In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana--the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. The Road to Oxiana offers not only a wonderful record of his adventures, but also a rare account of the architectural treasures of a region now ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Way of the World

    Two men in a car from Geneva to the Khyber Pass

    by Nicolas Bouvier ...
    The Way of the World, a cult classic, is the beguiling tale of an impecunious and life-enhancing journey from Geneva to the Khyber Pass in the '50s. When Nicolas Bouvier and the artist Thierry Vernet set out, they had money for four months and a sturdy Fiat Topolino. They broke their journey when money ran low, to teach and sell paintings and articles in Istanbul, Tabriz and eventually in Quetta. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Southern Gates Of Arabia - A Journey In The Hadbramaut

    by Freya Stark ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Twelve Days in Persia: Across the Mountains with the Bakhtiari Tribe

    by Vita Sackville-West ...
    A year after Vita Sackville-West first travelled to Iran - a journey described in the classic Passenger to Teheran - she returned to the land that had so captured her imagination. For twelve days, with her husband and three friends, she embarked on a difficult and often dangerous journey through the rugged and wildly-beautiful Bakhtiari Mountains of south-western Iran. It was a landscape that ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Passenger to Teheran

    by Vita Sackville-West ...
    In 1926 Vita Sackville-West travelled to Iran to visit her husband, Harold Nicolson, who was serving as a diplomat in Teheran. Her route was deliberately slow-paced - she stopped in Egypt, where she sailed up the Nile to Luxor; and India, where she visited New Delhi and Agra before sailing across the Persian Gulf to Iraq and on through bandit-infested mountains to Teheran. She returned to England ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cruel Way

    Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939

    by Ella K. Maillart ...
    In 1939 Swiss travel writer and journalist Ella K. Maillart set off on an epic journey from Geneva to Kabul with fellow writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach in a brand new Ford. As the first European women to travel alone on Afghanistan's Northern Road, Maillart and Schwarzenbach had a rare glimpse of life in Iran and Afghanistan at a time when their borders were rarely crossed by Westerners. As the two ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mirror To Damascus

    by Colin Thubron ...
    A 50th anniversary edition of Colin Thubron's celebrated first book, a portrait of Syria's capital city, with a new introduction by the author.Described by the author as simply 'a work of love', Mirror to Damascus provides a rich and fascinating history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966, and is also a charming and witty personal record of an extraordinary city.In ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • In Morocco (Mobi Classics)

    by Edith Wharton ...
    This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Winter in Arabia

    A Journey Through Yemen

    by Freya Stark ...
    The renowned explorer recounts her expedition to find a lost Arabian city in this "treasure of rare distinction among travel books" ( The New York Times Book Review).One of the most unconventional and courageous explorers of her time, Freya Stark chronicled her extraordinary Travels in the Near East, establishing herself as a Twentieth Century heroine. A Winter in Arabia recounts her 1937–8 ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Thousand Miles Up the Nile

    by Amelia Blanford Edwards ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus