"She has a gift for people; she has an eye for places." - The Times
The Incense Route is one of the most ancient and important highways in the world. It was once a rival to the Silk Road, at a time when faith in the mystic power of incense was at its height and its traffic - frankincense and myrrh, spices from India, gold and exotic African animal skins - was the lifeblood of the countries through which it passed.
Barbara Toy set out to travel the length of this long-forgotten route at a time of particular turbulence in the region and became the first western woman to have made the journey. Beginning in Bir Ali, Can'a of ancient times, she passed through war zones in Yemen, joined a band of pilgrims as far as Mecca, forged on to Jeddah and Medina, explored the breath-taking Nabataean city of Madain Saleh and then turned north, to Midian, Aqaba, Petra, Amman and finally Damascus.
Travelling the Incense Route is both a gripping account of intrepid travel and a portrait of Arabia unlike any other.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prologue
1 Unwelcome Traveller
2 Over the Jol
3 Mukalla
4 Open Sesame
5 Towards the Yemen
6 Live Now - Die Later
7 Royalist Friends
8 Sheba Came This Way
9 The Waking Giant
10 Into the High Asir
11 The Forbidden City
12 'Jeddah - of Frankish Consuls'
13 The Hijaz Railway
14 Madain Salih - Tombs of the Nabataeans
15 The Midian
16 The King's Highway
Index
