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Carruthers, Douglas (Editor)

The Desert Route to India; Being The Journals of Four Travellers By the Great Desert Caravan Route Between Aleppo and Basra 1745-1751

1929

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Year of publication
1929
Place of printing
London. Hakluyt Society
Author
Carruthers, Douglas (Editor)
Edition
First edition.
Keyword
Travel - Asia
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

8vo [22.5 x 15 cm]; xxxvi, 196 pp, 6 plates including frontis, folding map at end, bibliog, index. original blue cloth with gilt vignette on covers, gilt spine title lettering, spine faded, small stain on rear cover, interior fine and clean in good cover. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The four travellers are William Beawes, Garlard Roberts, Bartholomew Plaisted and John Carmichael. Carruthers provides an excellent and extensive historical perspective in his introduction, an important contribution to understanding the great routes between Europe and Asia, the route through the Syrian Desert to Persia, being described in detail. Cox i, 244.