The Desert Route to India : Being the Journals of Four Travellers by the Great Desert Caravan Route Between Aleppo and Basra, 1745-1751/edited by Douglas Carruthers.The Desert Route to India : Being the Journals of Four Travellers by the Great Desert Caravan Route Between Aleppo and Basra, 1745-1751/edited by Douglas Carruthers. Reprint. First published by the Hakluyt Society, London in 1929. New Delhi, AES, 1996, xxxvi, 196 p., map, plates, $26.

    Contents: Introduction. 1. A journey from Aleppo to Basra in 1745/William Beawes. 2. A journey from Basra to Aleppo in 1748/Gaylard Roberts. 3. A similar journey in 1750/Bartholomew Plaisted. 4. A journey from Aleppo to Basra in 1751/John Carmichael. Titles of works and maps. Index.

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