The Highway of the Three Kings; Arabia - From North to South; 3

TOY, Barbara

Published by John Murray, London, 1968

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Published: 1968. 1st Edition / 1st Impression. DESCRIPTION: Pictorial DJ over blue buckram cloth. Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good: Sharp corners, edges and spine ends. Sunned upper and lower board edges. Clean cloth. Tightly bound with intact endpapers and strong hinges. Minor mark to lower edge of ffep. DJ shadow to rear free endpaper. Clean unmarked pages. DJ Condition: Good: Wear and chipping to upper and lower edges. Heavier wear to upper spine ends and edges. Lightly sunned spine. Clipped. Pages ix, 188. Size: 22cm by 14cm. AUTHOR: Barbara Alex Toy (1908-2001) was an Australian-British travel writer and playwright. In 1950, she made a bet in London which launched her extensive travel career: "Miss Toy bought Pollyanna second-hand in London immediately after some friends had bet her she couldnt go to Baghdad, as she intended, because of the travel and currency restrictions. In The Highway of the three Kings, she travels from Aden through Yemen and Saudi Arabia, a particularly dangerous feat in view of the emergency in Aden and the Yemeni War. After a string of car troubles, she joins a lorry of pilgrims bound for Mecca. The lorry is held up by the desert sands and strays through a minefield, fortunately without calamity. Getting her Land Rover back, she then confronts the prohibition of woman drivers in Saudi Arabia, deciding to bypass Mecca and following the Hijaz Railway. She notes that the railway "has been out of commission since it was wrecked by Lawrence and the Arabs during the First World War. Toy also travelled extensively in Libya, Kuwait, Sudan, and Algeria. She became one of the first women to explore Saudi Arabia in 1953, and in 1990, at the age of 81, Toy set off on her second world tour. She successfully completed a circumnavigation, and later made a trip across the Alps, retracing the steps of the journey made by Hannibal and his elephants.

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The Highway of the Three Kings; Arabia - From North to South; 3

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John Murray, London

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1968

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Hardcover

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1st Edition.

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Very Good

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Good

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