Syria

First published in 1907 as Syria: The Desert and the Sown, this travel narrative records Gertrude Bell's 1905 journey through Ottoman Syria, from Jerusalem across the Jordan and the Jebel Druze to Damascus, Palmyra, the Orontes towns, Aleppo, and Antioch. She describes Bedouin hosts, town notables, Ottoman officials, ruins, and the contrast between cultivated land and desert pasture, with close attention to custom and conversation. The book is a first-person itinerary and political observation, not a later history of the mandates.

Bound in copper blocked green cloth. Bound in green cloth blocked on covers with a copper and maroon design by Yehrin Tong. Plain slipcase.