Secondhand travel books of the Middle East including including Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Dubai Syria Iran Iraq Lebannon and so much more.
Middle East
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DASTGAH Mark Mordue - Diary of a Headtrip (Worlwide)
DASTGAH: a cult classic travel book. Mordue invites readers to journey with him from a Rolling Stones concert in Istanbul to conversations with mullahs and junkies in Tehran, as well as many points in between. Mordue chronicles his year long global trip with his girlfriend, Lisa Nicol, exploring countries many Westerners never see and addressing issues of world citizenship in the 21st century.
Price: AUD $10.00
DESERT QUEEN Janet Wallach - The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia (Middle East)
DESERT QUEEN by Janet Wallach tells the untold story of Gertrude Bell, a woman as vital to the history of the Middle East as her friend and colleague, Lawrence of Arabia.
Price: AUD $9.00
DESERT ROYAL by Jean Sasson
A royal Saudi Arabia memoir by the author of Princess. This is a used book in good condition: clean with light reading wear; pages are clean and tanning with age; minor shelf marks. See photos for cover blurb and sample page(s). The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!
Price: AUD $5.00
DREAMING OF EAST Barbara Hodgson - Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient (Middle East)
From the eighteenth to the early twentieth century, Western women visiting the Middle East discovered there a rare and precious commodity: freedom. This book explores the eduring fascination that the Middle East exerted on women of the West, both because of its exotic trappings and because of the freedom it seemed to offer.
Price: AUD $9.00
ELVIS IS TITANIC Classroom tales from the other Iraq by Ian Klaus
A scarce memoir, the author taught at Salahaddin University in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2005. Book is in very good condition, nice and clean with little age or wear. See photos for cover blurb, sample page and condition - enjoy!
Price: AUD $9.00
EOTHEN A.W. Kinglake - (Middle East - Syria Palestine Egypt)
A scarce travel classic, the English author travels to the 'East', Syria, Palestine and Egpyt, around 1834.
Price: AUD $8.00
EVEN AFTER ALL THIS TIME Afschineh Latifi - A Story of Love, Revolution and Leaving Iran
In the richly evocative tradition of the bestselling "Reading Lolita in Tehran," this is a story of a family that had the courage to dream impossible dreams and to make them come true against impossible odds.
Price: AUD $8.00
FROM A PERSIAN TEA HOUSE Michael Carroll - Travels in Old Iran
An Iran travel classic - "An evocative and beautifully written account of Michael Carroll's journey to Iran that took him through the heart of the country -- from the Taurus mountains to the Gulf of Oman, during the years following the CIA-led coup of 1953."
Price: AUD $10.00
GALLIPOLI THE BATTLEFIELD GUIDE Mat McLachlan (Turkey)
In GALLIPOLI THE BATTLEFIELD GUIDE Mat McLachlan presents detailed plans for walking and driving tours across all the main battlefields, together with maps, photos and historical commentary.
Price: AUD $12.00
GULF STATES & SAUDI ARABIA A SURVIVAL HANDBOOK by Bob Hughes and Graeme Chesters
This expat guide book from 2003 will have some out of date information but still looks like a handy resource for anyone moving to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar or United Arab Emirates. This is a used book in good condition with nice clean white pages and light reading wear to cover. See photos for cover blurb and sample pages. The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - enjoy!
Price: AUD $8.00
GUZIN NAJIM'S THE PROMISE Sandra Lee - An Iraqi mother's desperate flight to freedom (Iraq)
GUZIN NAJIM'S THE PROMISE: A fascinating true story.
Price: AUD $5.00
HARRAP'S TURKISH PHRASE BOOK Including a 5000 word dictionary
A handy pocket sized phrase book for anybody off to Turkey. It is from 1989 by it's in good condition and cheap with free postage.
Price: AUD $8.00
HEAVY METAL IN BAGHDAD Andy Capper & Gabi Sifre - The Story of Acrassicauda
Tells the story behind the amazing documentary of the same name, and picks up where the film left on. It tells the story of Iraq heavy metal band Acrassicauda and the incredible difficulties they face in war torn Baghdad.
Price: AUD $9.00
HELLO DUBAI Joe Bennett - Skiing, Sand and Shopping in the World's Weirdest City (Middle East)
A most amusing and interesting Dubai travelogue by a much loved Kiwi\Pommy writer.
Price: AUD $10.00
HONEYMOON IN PURDAH An Iranian Journey
The author disguises herself as a honeymooner to get access to the Iran most of us will never see, looks like a great read. This is a used travel book in good, read condition: pages are clean and tanning at the edges with age; some light wear and creasing to corners; cover is clean with light wear; price marked on bottom edge of book with texta. Has been read a few times but a good reading copy. See photos for cover blurb and sample page(s). The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!
Price: AUD $6.00
HOUSE OF WINDOWS Adina Hoffman - Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighbourhood
HOUSE OF WINDOWS: Adina Hoffman's evocation of Jerusalem seen through the prism of the neighbourhood where she has lived for nearly a decade since moving from the United States
Price: AUD $8.00
HUGO TURKISH PHRASE BOOK (Turkey)
HUGO TURKISH PHRASE BOOK: a pocket sized language guide.
Price: AUD $6.00
IN BAGHDAD A Reporter's War by Paul McGeough
A brilliant book, a staff pick. I'm a sucker for memoirs by foreign correspondents and this is one of the best I have read. The book gives a behind the scenes look at life as a reporter in the first month of the Iraq War. Book is in good condition: clean with little reading wear, aging lightly. See photos for cover blurb, sample pages and condition - enjoy!
Price: AUD $10.00
IN THE ROSE GARDEN OF THE MARTYRS Christopher de Bellaigue - A Memoir of Iran
This is an insider's account of one of the most mysterious but significant and powerful nations in the world: Iran. This is the voices and memories of a 'worn-out generation' be they traders or soldiers, film-makers, or clerics, writers or taxi drivers, gansters or reformists.
Price: AUD $9.00
JOURNEY TO KARS Philip Glazebrook - A Modern Traveller in the Ottoman Lands - Europe \ Turkey
In Journey to Kars author Philip Glazebrook travels in the footsteps of Victorian travellers to the city of Kars in Turkey via old Serbian and Greek provinces and islands. This book is quite hard to find.
Price: AUD $10.00
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