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Travels in the Middle East; Being Impressions by the Way in Turkish Arabia, Syria, and Persia - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1916 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII A SOJOURN IN SHAM At Sham F 's path and mine separated--I to pursue my studies in that city, he bound for London Town via Stamboul. For that is the way of the road. For a time it and its hazards, and its long hours spent in the saddle riding side by side from dawn till eve, bring you and your companions in close touch with each other; then, the open country crossed where the road is one, and one only, you reach an outpost of civilisation where many highways meet, and they take one and you take another, each upon your own business, and the partnership is dissolved. My object being the acquirement of Arabic, a house of my own such as I had had in Baghdad was the first desideratum. To have gone to one of the European hotels, where tourists abound and where the waiters talk French or English, would have been to have had no more touch with things Arabic, whilst in it, than if I had resided in any Continental spa. After some little difficulty, for house agents are a luxury which Damascus has not yet indulged in, I procured a suitable residence not far off the Darb-el-Moustaqim, the long bazaar to which two thousand years ago that lion-hearted traveller, Paul of Tarsus, came groping his way to the house of Judas, that ancient way which is known to all the English-speaking world as 'the street which is called Straight.' My next necessity was an instructor in the language, that is chiefly on the literary side; for the colloquial I had the three hundred thousand inhabitants of Damascus at my service, or at any rate such of them as I might chance to speak with in the day's round. I was fortunate enough to find a capable instructor in Mr. A. K, a Syrian Christian; and it was with him that I finally acquired the right pronunciation of the two Arabic letters ...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1235794148
- ISBN 13 9781235794148
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages74
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