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Very Good in Good jacket. 8vo. 294pp, index, bw ills. Or blue boards in jacket. JAcket with several short tears at bottom edge, a little light toniong to page edges. 100 years before Lawrence of Arabia Hester Stanhope travelled throughout the Arab world on her own, adopting the customs, tongues and dress of her Arab companions. Shipwrecked off Rhodes, attacked by Bedouins in the Syrian desert, the first European woman to visit Palmyra, nearly killed by the plague-before her death her reputation was so great that not even the Sultan dared defy her, becoming an Oriental potentate in her own right.
