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‘A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the cradle of the Arab race. A visit to the court of the Arab Emir, and "Our Persian Campaign."' [2] (45/334)
The record is made up of 1 volume (273 pages). It was created in 1881. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.
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A Pilgrimage to Nejd.
[C1I. I.
present; and till the day of one's death comes, I
suppose the present will always be endurable. Then
it has done us good to meet old friends, friends
all demonstratively pleased to see us. At the coach
office when we got down, we found a little band of
dependants waiting our arrival—first of all Moham
med ibn Aruk, the companion of our last year's
adventures, who has come from Palmyra to meet
and travel with us again, and who has been waiting
here for us, it would seem, a month. Then Hanna,
the most courageous of cowards and of cooks, with
his ever ready tears in his eyes and his double row
of excellent white teeth, agrin with welcome. Each
of them has brought with him a friend, a relation
he insists on calling him, who is to share the
advantage of being in our service, and to stand by
his patron in case of need, for servants like to travel
here in pairs. Mohammed's cousin is a quiet, re
spectable looking man of about five and thirty, rather
thick set and very broad shouldered. He is to act
as head camel man, and he looks just the man for
the place. Hanna's brother bears no likeness at all
to Hanna. He is a young giant, with a rather feck
less face, and great splay hands which seem to
embarrass him terribly. He is dressed picturesquely
in a tunic shaped like the ecclesiastical vestment
called the " dalmatic,'' and very probably its origin,
with a coloured turban on his head. He too may be
useful, but he is a Christian, and we rather doubt the
prudence of taking Christian servants to Nejd. Only
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A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the cradle of the Arab race. A visit to the court of the Arab Emir, and "Our Persian Campaign."...With map, portraits, and illustrations from the author's drawings , by Lady Anne Isabella Noel Blunt, Baroness Wentworth. With contributions from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.
Publication details: Published by John Murray, Albemarle Street, London.
Physical description: Volume 1 of a two-volume work; includes map and illustrations; Octavo.
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- 1 volume (273 pages)
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The volume contains a table of contents with chapter headings with page references (pp xxix-xxxi). Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter. There is also a list of illustrations giving titles and page references (p xxxiii).
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- 2358.c.2. vol. 1
- Title
- ‘A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the cradle of the Arab race. A visit to the court of the Arab Emir, and "Our Persian Campaign."'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:34, 1:80, 80a:80b, 81:104, 104a:104b, 105:118, 118a:118b, 119:120, 120a:120b, 121:160, 160a:160b, 161:214, 214a:214b, 215:250, 250a:250b, 251:274, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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- Blunt Lady, nee King, Anne Isabella Noel, 15th Baroness Wentworth
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