Adventures in Arabia

About this book

William Seabrook enters Bedouin tents, visits Druze communities and watches the ceremonies of whirling dervishes. His most unusual encounters take him among the Yazidis, whose beliefs were badly misrepresented by outsiders as devil worship.

Published in 1927, this travel account combines desert journeys, conversations with religious leaders and the author's taste for unsettling experiences. Chapters move from camel caravans to mountain sanctuaries and ritual halls. Seabrook writes with the appetite of an adventurer, and his interpretations sometimes reveal more about Western fascination with the exotic than about the people who received him.