A Pilgrimage to Nejd (Annotated)

A Pilgrimage to Nejd is Lady Anne Blunt's richly observed account of her 1878–79 journey with Wilfrid Scawen Blunt into central Arabia, especially the region of Jabal Shammar and the court of Ha'il. Written in the idiom of Victorian travel literature yet marked by unusual restraint, ethnographic curiosity, and lyric precision, the book records desert routes, tribal politics, Bedouin customs, domes...