Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates

Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates

Author: Lady Anne Blunt

Publisher: London : J. Murray

Published: 1879

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13:

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Lady Anne Blunt (1837-1917), daughter of the Earl of Lovelace and granddaughter of Lord Byron, is known as an adventurous traveler to the Middle East and the most accomplished horsewoman and breeder of Arabian stock of her era. She was married to poet and diplomat Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922). When he inherited a family estate in Sussex in 1872, the couple was able to establish a stud at their Crabbet Park home. They then traveled in the Middle East to purchase Arabian horses from Bedouin tribesmen, which they transported back to England. In 1878 Lady Anne journeyed from Beirut, across northern Syria, and south through Mesopotamia to Baghdad. From there she traveled north along the Tigris River and west across the desert to the Mediterranean port of Alexandretta (present-day Iskenderun, Turkey). In 1879 she again set out from Beirut, but traveled south through the Emirate of Jabal Shammar, reached its capital of Ha'il, across the Arabian Peninsula, and continued to the port of Bushehr (present-day Iran). Shown here is the first edition of Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates. It is one of two books that Lady Anne wrote based on her travel diaries during these journeys (the other is A Pilgrimage to Nejd). Edited by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, the book concludes with a few chapters that he wrote on "the Arabs and their horses." In 1882 the couple opened a second stud outside Cairo, which they called Shaykh 'Ubayd. The couple separated in 1906, and in 1913 Lady Anne left England and moved permanently to Shaykh 'Ubayd. She died in Cairo in 1917. She is credited with helping preserve the purebred Arabian horse and was known by her friends as the "noble lady of the horses."


Literature of Travel and Exploration: A to F

Literature of Travel and Exploration: A to F

Author: Jennifer Speake

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9781579584252

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Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.


The Accidental Tourist, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, and the British Invasion of Egypt in 1882

The Accidental Tourist, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, and the British Invasion of Egypt in 1882

Author: Michael D. Berdine

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-11-25

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1000143597

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This fascinating account highlights the extent the world's major powers will go to as they seek to insure their own interests and agendas, despite the wishes of those whose countries they invade and occupy. The Accidental Tourist profiles Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's involvement in the so-called Arabi Revolt in 1882. It addresses Blunt's tireless efforts on behalf of the Egyptian Nationalists to mediate the differences between Britain and Egypt and prevent a British invasion of Egypt. It highlights what amounted to a government cover-up of the actions of certain governmental officials to precipitate the invasion by falsifying intelligence information and manipulating the press. It also takes to task the scholarly tradition of maligning Blunt and questioning the accuracy of his version of the events of 1882. Blunt was branded a traitor in the House of Commons. This book was written to set the record straight. It is ideal reading for those interested in the field of Middle Eastern, Imperial or Colonial history and will provide readers with a better understanding of the real story of imperialism that went on at the time and is still going on in the Middle East today.


A History of Jeddah

A History of Jeddah

Author: Ulrike Freitag

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-03-19

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 1108478794

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An urban history of Jeddah from the late Ottoman period to the present day, seen through its diverse and changing population.


حج الى ربوع نجد، مهد قبائل العرب 1878-1879 م

حج الى ربوع نجد، مهد قبائل العرب 1878-1879 م

Author: Lady Anne Blunt

Publisher: دائرة الثقافة والسياحة – أبوظبي، مركز أبوظبي للغة العربية، إصدارات

Published: 2014-05-04

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 9948172310

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"الرّحّالة البريطانية الليدي آن بلنت سيّدة مثقّفة ورحّالة جريئة صادقة أضافت إلى أدب الرّحلات الغربية في الشرق نصوص رحلتين فريدتين إلى الجزيرة الفُراتية وشمالي جزيرة العرب، فكانت من أوائل الرّائدات لسلسلة من الرّحّالات النساء زُرن مشرقنا العربي وكتبن عنه. بعدما نشرنا كتاب آن "عشائر بدو الفُرات"، يسرّنا أن نردفه بهذا الكتاب حول رحلتها الثانية والأخيرة برفقة زوجها ولفريد، فيه تروي بقالب شائق ولغة سلسلة ممتعة كيف عقدا العزم على القيام برحلة أخطر وأبعد إلى نجد "مهد قبائل العرب"، لما سمعاه عنها من أبناء العشائر في الجزيرة الفُراتية، لكونها منبع أصولهم وموئل عزّهم، كانت الفكرة تنطوي على مخاطرة كبيرة ومغامرة رائعة استثارت إهتمام الزّوجين، فما لبثا في شتاء عام 1878 أن واعدا ""خويهما"" البدوي التّدمُري محمد العبد الله العرُوق، ليقود القافلة من دمشق إلى شمالي جزيرة العرب، مروراً بحوران واللّجاة والحماد ووادي السرحان والجوف وصحراء النفود، حتى مدينة حائل معقل الأمير محمد بن عبد الله آل رشيد، فكانا رابع الرّحّالين الغربيين الذين زاروا حائل آنذاك، من بعد بالغريف عام 1862 وغوارماني عام 1864 وداوتي عام 1877."


A Female Poetics of Empire

A Female Poetics of Empire

Author: Julia Kuehn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-30

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1134663064

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Many well-known male writers produced fictions about colonial spaces and discussed the advantages of realism over romance, and vice versa, in the ‘art of fiction’ debate of the 1880s; but how did female writers contribute to colonial fiction? This volume links fictional, non-fictional and pictorial representations of a colonial otherness with the late nineteenth-century artistic concerns about representational conventions and possibilities. The author explores these texts and images through the postcolonial framework of ‘exoticism’, arguing that the epistemological dilemma of a ‘self’ encountering an ‘other’ results in the interrelated predicament to find poetic modalities – mimetic, realistic and documentary on the one hand; romantic, fantastic and picturesque on the other – that befit an ‘exotic’ representation. Thus women writers did not only participate in the making of colonial fictions but also in the late nineteenth-century artistic debate about the nature of fiction. This book maps the epistemological concerns of exoticism and of difference – self and other, home and away, familiarity and strangeness – onto the representational modes of realism and romance. The author focuses exclusively on female novelists, travel writers and painters of the turn-of-the-century exotic, and especially on neglected authors of academically under-researched genres such as the bestselling novel and the travelogue.


Prominent Women from Central Arabia

Prominent Women from Central Arabia

Author: Dalal bint Makhlad HĐarbi

Publisher: Garnet & Ithaca Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780863723278

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Women's contributions to Arabic and Islamic society - be they cultural, religious, medical, or military - have been recorded by Muslim historians throughout the ages. No biographical dictionary of any worth was considered complete unless it mentioned prominent women, a tradition stemming from the earliest Islamic biographies which all included the female companions of the Prophet, as well as mothers of notable men. However, little has been written about the contribution of women from more recent contemporary central Arabian society. Published in association with Saudi Arabia's King Abdul Aziz Foundation for Research and Archives, Prominent Women from Central Arabia explores sources ranging from published material to manuscripts, documents, and oral history in an attempt to redress the balance. In all, the book contains 52 biographies of women who lived from the beginning of the 18th century until the death of King 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Saud in 1953. The women examined include notable poets, educators, and great donors of charitable works, amongst others. Above all, the book highlights the enormous contribution of the women of Central Arabia during the period under consideration, demonstrating that, contrary to popular misconception, their influence has in fact been highly significant.