Exploration & Journeys
Amurath to Amurath
Gertrude Bell
1911
11h 18m
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She spoke Persian and Arabic, dug at mounds nobody had mapped, and knew the sheikhs by name. In 1909 Gertrude Bell followed the Euphrates down from Aleppo through Mesopotamia, recording the ruined churches, the desert politics and the tribal balance of an Ottoman province she would help redraw as Iraq barely ten years later.
Inside this audiobook
19 chapters
- 1Preface and Note1m
- 2ALEPPO TO TELL AḤMAR39m
- 3ALEPPO TO TELL AḤMAR continued44m
- 4TELL AḤMAR TO BUSEIRAH37m
- 5TELL AḤMAR TO BUSEIRAH continued41m
- 6BUSEIRAH TO HÎT -- The Parthian Stations of Isidorus of Charax31m
- 7BUSEIRAH TO HÎT continued40m
- 8HÎT TO KERBELÂ -- The Palace of Ukheiḍir47m
- 9HÎT TO KERBELÂ continued36m
- 10KERBELÂ TO BAGHDÂD30m
- 11KERBELÂ TO BAGHDÂD continued43m
- 12BAGHDÂD TO MÔṢUL -- The Ruins of Sâmarrâ54m
- 13BAGHDÂD TO MÔṢUL continued29m
- 14MÔṢUL TO ZÂKHÔ42m
- 15MÔṢUL TO ZÂKHÔ continued39m
- 16ZÂKHÔ TO DIYÂRBEKR32m
- 17ZÂKHÔ TO DIYÂRBEKR continued37m
- 18DIYÂRBEKR TO KONIA27m
- 19DIYÂRBEKR TO KONIA continued28m
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