The Desert of the Exodus: Journeys on Foot in the Wilderness of the Forty Years' Wanderings; Undertaken in Connection with the Ordnance Survey of Sinai and the Palestine Exploration Fund

470, 2 pp. Maps and numerous illustrations from photographs and drawings taken on the spot by the Sinai Survey Expedition, and C.D. Tyrwhitt Drake. Three fold-out maps, engraved frontispiece, plates and in-line illustrations. The author was an orientalist and explorer. He was engaged in 1869 to join the survey of Sinai, undertaken by the Palestine Exploration Fund, and followed up this work in the next year by exploring the desert of El-Tih in company with Charles Drake. They completed this journey on foot and without escort, making friends among the Bedouin, to whom Palmer was known as Abdallah Effendi. After a visit to the Lebanon and to Damascus, where he made the acquaintance of Sir Richard Burton, then consul there, he returned to England in 1870 by way of Constantinople and Vienna. At Vienna he met Arminius Vambéry. The results of this expedition appeared in the Desert of the Exodus (1871); in a report published in the journal of the Palestine Exploration Fund (1871); and in an article on the "Secret Sects of Syria" in the Quarterly Review (1873). Contents include: Part I. Sinai: The Sinai Survey; Physical Geography of Sinai; From Suez to Sinai; The Convent of Mount Sinai; The Bedawin of Sinai; Mount Sinai; The Neighborhood of Jebel Musa; From Sinai to Serbal; Feiran; Mukatteb and Magharah; Wanderings in the Wilderness; The Highways and By-ways of Sinai; The Outlying Districts of Sinai; The Results of the Sinai Expedition; Part II. The Forty Years' Wanderings: The Desert and its Inhabitants; The Southern Edge of the Tih; Badiet et Tih; The Wilderness of Kadesh; The Cities of the South; The Southern Border of Palestine; The Mountains of the 'Azazimeh; Edom; From Petra to Shihan; Moab; The Topography of the Exodus; Appendix: A. Passage from Antoninus Martyr; B. Nebi Saleh; C. The Mohammedan History of the Exodus; D. List of Metropolitan, Archiepiscopal, and Episcopal Towns in the See of the Holy City of Jerusalem; E. Arabic Geographical Terms; F. Notes on Some Rock Specimens from Sinai, by the Rev. T.G. Bonney; Index.