A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab Race

Blunt, Anne. A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab Race. London: J. Murray, 1881.

This book documents the journey of Lady Anne Blunt (d. 1917) to Arabia in 1875.

Table of Contents

• The Charm of Asia
• Brotherly offices
• Beating about
• We start in earnest
• Kaf and Itheri
• The Jof oasis
• The Ibn Aruks of Jof
• Mohammed in love
• Jobba
• Hail
• Political and Historical
• Nejd horses
• Mohammed loses his head
• We go in search of adventures
• Muttlak Ibn Aruk and the Ketherin
• The Shrines of the Shias
• New plans and new preparations
• We are betrayed into the hands of robbers
• A prince in exile
• Pleasures of town life
• Illness and misery
• A last rush through the sun

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