Travels in the Unknown East

Travels In The Unknown East is a remarkable collection of experiences in Middle Eastern lands, from Istanbul to Alexandria, from Aqaba to Damascus. John Grant’s adventures, which took place as two extensive journeys separated by almost fifty years, encounter Druze and Arab sheikhs, simple Dervishes and Coptic priests. Travelling with Grant we experience magical ceremonies, desert ambushes and brawls with drug-smugglers. Ancient traditions, all the blaze and panoply of the immemorial East – together with some wonderful Oriental tales – meet and mingle with modernity and violence in this extraordinary book.