Travel in Syria and the Holy Land

Name: Travel in Syria and the Holy Land
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ISBN: 9781406800821

ISBN-10: 1406800821

ISBN-13: 9781406800821

Edition: 2006

Authors: John Lewis Burckhardt

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I had intended to sleep at Om Ezzeitoun, but I found the Druses very ill-disposed towards me. It was generally reported that I had discovered a treasure in 1810 at Shohba, near this place, and it was supposed that I had now returned to carry off what I had then left behind. I had to combat against this story at almost every place, but I was nowhere so rudely received as at this village, where I escaped ill treatment only by assuming a very imposing air, and threatening with many oaths, that if I lost a single hair of my beard, the Pasha would levy an avania of many purses on the village. I had with me an old passport from Soleiman Pasha, who, though no longer governor of Damascus, had been…

Book details

List price: $24.90
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Echo Library
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 380
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English