By Desert Ways to Baghdad
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Prologue
10:25 -
Disentanglement
12:52 -
Brigandage
14:55 -
Social Intercourse
10:00 -
The Dawn of the Baghdad Railway
38:53 -
In the Taurus
28:37 -
Royal Progress
23:52 -
Harran: A Digression into the Land of Abraham
19:31 -
That Unblessed Land, Mesopotamia
24:59 -
Afloat
9:43 -
Held Up
25:37 -
A Reception and a Dance
11:34 -
An Encounter with an Englishman
12:49 -
The Creed of the Koran
14:37 -
The Evil One
15:33 -
Arab Hospitality
14:15 -
A Storm and a Lull
15:05 -
An Encounter with Fanatics
10:54 -
The End of the Raft
9:11 -
Babylon
19:04 -
The Sound of the Desert
19:07 -
Palmyra
11:04 -
An Armenian and a Turk
35:51 -
Retrospective
17:57
By Desert Ways to Baghdad (1909) is a public domain work.
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An apple tree, a map of Asia and a handbook supply the starting point for Louisa Jebb Wilkins and her companion, called X. Published in 1909, this travel account follows a route through Asia Minor towards the Tigris, Baghdad and Damascus. X sketches the route across mountains and rivers, while the narrator explains their preference for flexible arrangements. Food, transport and shelter become part of the story as the pair put their rough plan into practice.
The chapter headings lead from the Taurus Mountains to a raft supported by goatskins and onward across the Syrian desert. In the river excerpt, an encounter with armed men prompts a boatman to describe the risks faced by local traders. Humour and confidence sit beside danger and unequal protection. Readers interested in older travel writing can follow both the practical details of movement and the social assumptions through which the narrator interprets the people she meets.
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- Louisa Jebb Wilkins
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