# Oriental Encounters: Palestine and Syria, 1894-6

Author: Pickthall, Marmaduke William, 1875-1936

Genre: Category: Travel Writing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19378

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Oriental+Encounters%3A+Palestine+and+Syria%2C+1894-6+Pickthall&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The brown plain, swimming in a haze of heat, stretched far away into the distance, where a chain of mountains trenched upon the cloudless sky. Six months of drought had withered all the herbage. Only thistles, blue and yellow, and some thorny bushes had survived; but after the torrential winter rains the whole expanse would blossom like the rose. I traversed the plain afterwards in spring, when cornfields waved for miles around its three mud villages, wild flowers in mad profusion covered its waste places, and scarlet tulips flamed amid its wheat.

## Chapters

- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/31/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/27/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/29/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/32/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/30/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/28/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 33](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/33/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oriental-encounters-palestine-and-syria-1894-6-19378/chapters/25/index.md)