A small, pocket-size wonder of a book, packed with information on history, architecture, art...and lots of photographs.

a good source of history and general information on the Arabs before the advent of Islam.

Strabo, a Greek writer of Asiatic ancestry, also writes about the Nabataeans and their capital, Petra.

Good for general information about the Roman empire in the Middle East.

While travelling in Arabia Deserta, Charles M.doughty "discovered" the ruins of the Nabataean town of Hegra, in the Hijaz (now in Saudi Arabia)

The information is more up-to-date, and so more practical, than in the former. In a budget guide, check, not the year of the edition, but the year the information was written or revised

Leonard Woolley (before his famous work at Ur) and T.E.Lawrence were employed, in 1914, to record archeological remains in what was then southern Palestine. This is the final report they made.

A very good biography. Highly recommended.

If Lawrence became a myth even before his death, much more so after this film was released.

Entertaining way to gain up-to-date information on Lawrence.

Good-humoured, detailed information about the history and everyday-life of the country that has suffered such intrusive travellers.

....and -who knows?- in your wanderings through the desert you might see the shadow of Majnun, eternally looking for his beloved, Layla...