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Go for an early morning walk along the Corniche - Beirut's seaside promenade - and watch as the Mediterranean Sea laps against the rocks while the summits of Mount Lebanon dominate the horizon to the east. Enjoy a strong black coffee here before hitting...

This brilliant, vivid and impressionistic series of sketches, formed during her 1892 stay in Persia, is Gertrude Bell's first published work. Infused with a distinctive orientalism, 'Persian Pictures' is an evocative, virtuosic meditation, moving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593235638Author Lior Lev SercarzFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Culture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on...

Returning to the UK in September 2010 after serving in Iraq as the political adviser to the top American general, Emma Sky felt no sense of homecoming. She soon found herself back in the Middle East travelling through a region in revolt. In A Time of...

This collection of travel writing celebrates friendship and the chance encounters that unexpectedly enrich our lives, which shows the diversity of the Islamic world and the way in which it continues to inspire, bemuse and enrich the western imagination...

The land of the Iranians, known to European travelers for centuries as Persia, is a land riven by mountain-ranges, made inhospitable by deserts, yet rich in plains, forests and jewel-like gardens. Home to the most sublime architecture in the world, and a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949445077Author Najmieh BatmanglijFormat HardbackPage Count 728Imprint Mage PublishersPublisher Mage PublishersWeight(grams) 2755g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375757464Author Jane Fletcher GeniesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

This is the first book on Iran to combine travelogue with in-depth historical reflection/getting to the heart of the Iranian Islamic mind. This is a reflective look at the cultural heritage and present nuclear crisis in Iran. Iran's cultural and...

When Henry Hemming set out in a pick-up truck called Yasmine to make a portrait of the Middle East, he had no idea what he would find or where he would be able to go - he wasn't even sure how he would earn enough money to stay on the road for a year...

This title covers all the history from Alexander the Great to Hamid Karzai. It contains literary excerpts from Herodotus to the modern day. It is lavishly illustrated with rare archival material such as 19th century paintings and engravings from the...

Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just south west of the Syrian Capital. Yet it lives in another world. Besieged by Syrian government forces since 2011, its people were deprived of food, bombarded by bombs and missiles, and shot at by snipers. Its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596050624Author Yoshida KenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Lady Anne Blunt was a woman ahead of her time. After marrying the poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt in 1869, the pair travelled extensively in the Middle East, developing an especial fondness for the region and its people. In this book, Lisa Lacy explores the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616085896Author Becky WicksFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788393575701Author Dr Ian JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Wojciech MachowskiPublisher Wojciech MachowskiWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

This exciting new series will bring together both classic texts and the writing of the leading Travel writers working today, which will inform and inspire the inquisitive traveller. It is an essential companion for anyone travelling to Syria. Selected...

The Sultanate of Oman, long regarded as one of the more mysterious countries of the Arabian Peninsula, has only recently opened its doors to tourists. An ancient land, with a rich history, dramatic landscape, and diverse flora and fauna, Oman was largely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971644Author Tim Mackintosh-SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566568395Author Hana El-HibriFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink BooksWeight(grams) 1696g

A mountain peak above the Monastery of St Catherine in Egypt, Mount Sinai is best known as the site where Moses received the Ten Commandments in the biblical Book of Exodus. This book brings this rich history to light, exploring the ways in which the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953251162Author Raymond GoodburnFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Pilgrim Book Services LtdPublisher Pilgrim Book Services LtdWeight(grams) 170g

Ideal itineraries and top travel tips in a pocket-sized package. Now with free eBook, and a pull-out map.Plan your trip, plan perfect days and discover how to get around - this Insight Guides pocket-sized book is a convenient, quick-reference companion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156031561Author Rory StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Jerusalem is truly unique in almost every way. For 3,000 years, people have fought over this city, destroyed it, and rebuilt it again. It is a place of great spirituality and beauty, and also of prophecy, historical intrigue and violence. It has been a...

Life in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is no party ... or so we thought. In Saudi Arabia Undercover, expat Harper Walsh busts this myth with true stories of homemade alcohol, pill popping, parties staffed by pretty Ethiopian girls in expat gated compounds,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854114006Format PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 250g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780936315171Author Shusha GuppyFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint StarhavenPublisher Starhaven

Morocco is a country that has been much invaded, much traveled though, and much written about in many languages. Positioned at the entrance to Africa-or the entrance to Europe-it has seen deep cultural cross-fertilization and the emergence of a very...

Culture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on...

The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool presents the unexpected face of Syria. Based on five journeys, undertaken over as many years, Kociejowski's book is entirely concerned with the slow journey towards friendship. So we learn nothing about coups or...

In the early spring of 1358, Francis Petrarch was invited by his friend Giovanni Mandelli, a leading military and political figure of Visconti Milan, to go on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Pleased at the invitation, Petrarch nevertheless declined to...

Modern international business has its origins in the overseas trade of the Middle Ages. Of the various communities active in trade in the Islamic countries at that time, records of only the Jewish community survive. Thousands of documents were preserved...

This book ventures into the world beyond Lampedusa: the crisis belt that stretches from Kashmir across Pakistan and Afghanistan to the Arab world and beyond, to the borders and coasts of Europe. Celebrated author Navid Kermani reports from a region which...

Beirut has seen many armies and empires come and go, but the legacy of this long history is not so much in surviving monuments as in the quintessential Levantine spirit of the people. A commercial hub since the days of the Phoenicians, it was a centre of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957568501Author Dennis HardyFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Blue Gecko BooksPublisher Blue Gecko BooksWeight(grams) 581g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566567466Author AithieFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink BooksWeight(grams) 853gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 202mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999813536Author Tony WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Arabesque TravelPublisher Arabesque TravelWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783487085616Author Mohammad Al ZubairFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Georg Olms Verlag AGPublisher Georg Olms Verlag AGWeight(grams) 3060g