Acknowledgements; Introduction; David Urquhart: Spirit of the East; Alexander Kinglake: Eothen; Eliot Warburton: The Crescent and the Rose; 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; 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: 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.