Amurath to Amurath

Gertrude Bell’s personal account of her five month journey, in 1909, through what is now Syria, Iraq, and Turkey. This volume is a priceless compendium of her observations on both the physical and cultural landscape of the region. Her journey coincided with a time of great upheaval and bloodshed in the Ottoman Empire, a time when one Amurath (Ottoman Sultan) gave way to the next.