The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Arabia
Escape from Riyadh - William Gifford Palgrave
A scholar and a solider, a Jesuit and a Jew, a French spy and a British ambassador- Palgrave was a man of contradictions, all of them highly compromised when in 1862-3, fortified by Pius IX''s blessing and Napoleon III''s cash, he attempted the first west- east crossing of the Arabian peninsular. To steely nerves and a genius for disguise he owed his ev...
Escape from Riyadh - William Gifford Palgrave
A scholar and a solider, a Jesuit and a Jew, a French spy and a British ambassador- Palgrave was a man of contradictions, all of them highly compromised when in 1862-3, fortified by Pius IX''s blessing and Napoleon III''s cash, he attempted the first west- east crossing of the Arabian peninsular. To steely nerves and a genius for disguise he owed his ev...
