The Lands of the Saracen

By Taylor, J. Bayard

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Title:	The Lands of the Saracen
Author:	Taylor, J. Bayard
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: This volume comprises the second portion of a series of travels, of which the ?Journey to Central Africa,? already published, is the first part. I left home, intending to spend a winter in Africa, and to return during the following summer; but circumstances afterwards occurred, which prolonged my wanderings to nearly two years and a half, and led me to visit many remote and unexplored portions of the globe. To describe this journey in a single work, would embrace too many incongruous elements, to say nothing of its great length, and as it falls naturally into three parts, or episodes, of very distinct character, I have judged it best to group my experiences under three separate heads, merely indicating the links which connect them. This work includes my travels in Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain, and will be followed by a third and concluding volume, containing my adventures in India, China, the Loo?Choo Islands, and Japan. Although many of the letters, contained in this volume, describe beaten tracks of travel, I have always given my own individual impressions, and may claim for them the merit of entire sincerity. The journey from Aleppo to Constantinople, through the heart of Asia Minor, illustrates regions rarely traversed by tourists, and will, no doubt, be new to most of my readers. My aim, throughout the work, has been to give correct pictures of Oriental life and scenery, leaving antiquarian research and speculation to abler hands. The scholar, or the man of science, may complain with reason that I have neglected valuable opportunities for adding something to the stock of human knowledge: but if a few of the many thousands, who can only travel by their firesides, should find my pages answer the purpose of a series of cosmoramic views?should in them behold with a clearer inward eye the hills of Palestine, the sun?gilded minarets of Damascus, or the lonely pine?forests of Phrygia?should feel, by turns, something of the inspiration and the indolence of the Orient?I shall have achieved all I designed, and more than I can justly hope.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Lands of the Saracen, 1 -- Bayard Taylor, 1 -- Preface, 2 -- Chapter I. Life in a Syrian Quarantine, 3 -- Chapter II. The Coast of Palestine, 8 -- Chapter III. From Jaffa to Jerusalem, 14 -- Chapter IV. The Dead Sea and the Jordan River, 18 -- Chapter V. The City of Christ, 22 -- Chapter VI. The Hill?Country of Palestine, 28 -- Chapter VII. The Country of Galilee, 33 -- Chapter VIII. Crossing the Anti?Lebanon, 38 -- Chapter IX. Pictures of Damascus, 39 -- Chapter X. The Visions of Hasheesh, 44 -- Chapter XI. A Dissertation on Bathing and Bodies, 49 -- Chapter XII. Baalbec and Lebanon, 53 -- Chapter XIII. Pipes and Coffee, 59 -- Chapter XIV. Journey to Antioch and Aleppo, 62 -- Chapter XV. Life in Aleppo, 66 -- Chapter XVI. Through the Syrian Gates, 73 -- Chapter XVII. Adana and Tarsus, 77 -- Chapter XVIII. The Pass of Mount Taurus, 80 -- Chapter XIX. The Plains of Karamania, 86 -- Chapter XX. Scenes in Konia, 88 -- Chapter XXI. The Heart of Asia Minor, 91 -- Chapter XXII. The Forests of Phrygia, 94 -- Chapter XXIII. Kiutahya and the Ruins of OEzani, 100 -- Chapter XXIV. The Mysian Olympus, 103 -- Chapter XXV. Brousa and the Sea of Marmora, 108 -- Chapter XXVI. The Night of Predestination, 112 -- Chapter XXVII. The Solemnities of Bairam, 115 -- Chapter XXVIII. The Mosques of Constantinople, 119 -- Chapter XXIX. Farewell to the Orient?Malta, 123 -- Chapter XXX. The Festival of St. Agatha, 126 -- Chapter XXXI. The Eruption of Mount Etna, 131 -- Chapter XXXII. Gibraltar, 134 -- Chapter XXXIII. Cadiz And Seville, 137 -- Chapter XXXIV. Journey in a Spanish Diligence, 141 -- Chapter XXXV. Granada And The Alhambra, 145 -- Chapter XXXVI. The Bridle?Roads of Andalusia, 149 -- Chapter XXXVII. The Mountains of Ronda, 154