Destination Mecca

Idries Shah

• Publisher: ISF Publishing
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781784790561
• Edition: 0

First published in 1957, Destination Mecca was both an ambitious travel book and a work of ethnographic and cultural research.Shah documents a wide range of fascinating journeys, from his quest for the gold mines of King Solomon on Sudan's Red Sea Coast, to encounters in desert caravanserais and sojourns with Mediterranean contraband smugglers, to his time as a personal guest of the elderly King Ibn Saud.As readable now as it was when first published, Destination Mecca acts as a beacon for hands on adventurers and those of a more sedate kind.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• I Gentleman at Large
• II Tangier: Smugglers’ Paradise
• III Contraband Runner
• IV Eastward to Egypt
• V New Arabian Knights
• VI Marching Orders
• VII Red Sea Journey
• VIII The Shrine of the Black Stone
• IX Life in Mecca
• X Camel Lore
• XI Locust Army
• XII Audience with Ibn Saud
• XIII Saud, Son of Abdul-Aziz
• XIV In Search of Solomon’s Mines
• XV Mahdism on the March
• XVI Domes of Omdurman
• XVII Land of the Phoenicians
• XVIII Kingdom of the Jordan
• XIX Petra the Mysterious
• XX The Rock of Paradise
• XXI In Search of Venus
• XXII Sorcerer’s Apprentice
• XXIII Guerrilla King of No Man’s Land
• A Request