Travels in Arabia

Interesting reading. It is hard to actually rate a book such this though. There are long descriptions, page after page in fact, of the many places he travelled and they can make dry reading. The writing is not particularly PC by modern standards. Understandable considering the period in question but this can make for uncomfortable reading at times. He had slaves, for example, but then some might say who didn't in the early 1800's on the Arabian peninsular. Putting aside those issues there was many interesting descriptions of the peoples, places and events that must certainly be of use to modern scholars with an interest in the history of the Arabian peninsular.