"If my fellow-traveller had lived, he intended to have put together
in book form such information as we had gathered about Southern
Arabia. Now, as he died four days after our return from our last
journey there, I have had to undertake the task myself. It has been
very sad to me, but I have been helped by knowing that, however
imperfect this book may be, what is written here will surely be a
help to those who, by following in our footsteps, will be able to
get beyond them, and to whom I so heartily wish success and a Happy
Home-coming, the best wish a traveller may have." So Mabel Bent
(Mrs J. Theodore Bent) begins her Preface to Southern Arabia, one
of the classic travel books written in English about this
ever-fascinating region, in which she details the couple's travels
over a ten-year period. A testimony to the book's high regard is
that, since publication in 1900, it has rarely been out-of-print.
Mabel Bent continues in her Preface to inform the reader that her
volume is drawn in part from the note-books of her husband, her
fellow-traveller, the redoubtable J. Theodore Bent (1852-97), and
also "...from the 'Chronicles' that I always wrote during our
journeys". After more than a hundred years, and for the first time,
these personal Chronicles on 'South Arabia' are published in World
Enough, and Time: The Chronicles of Mabel Bent. Vol. III and are of
significant interest to Arabists and those enthusiasts who will
want to have Mabel's on-the-spot account of their adventures and
archaeological and ethnographical discoveries. Also included in
this present volume is Mabel Bent's previously unpublished
Chronicle of their long journey through Persia, from south to north
in 1889. Contents: Bahrein and Persia, 1889: The Hadhramaut,
1893-5; Socotra and the lands of the Fadhli and Yafai, 1896-7.
Personal letters, documents, maps, and Mabel Bent's own photographs
contribute to this important insight into the lives of two of the
great British travellers of the nineteenth century.
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