The caravan route

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between Egypt and Syria.
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SALVATOR, Ludwig, Archduke of Austria.

The caravan route

The caravan route

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between Egypt and Syria.

Stock Code 112059

London, Chatto & Windus, 1881

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The account of an expedition undertaken in March 1878 by the Archduke, to investigate the possibility of a coastal railway in southern Palestine. This was eventually discounted, the preferred option being an expansion of the harbour at Beirut, and the establishment of a rail link from there to Damascus.

First English edition; 8vo, xiv, 68pp.; 23 wood-engraved plates after drawings by the author; light foxing to title and occasionally elsewhere, original pictorial green cloth gilt, lightly rubbed a very good copy.

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