"The typical reader is likely to gain a deeper understanding about the ways Orientalist ideas have penetrated popular culture right up to the present. . . . A very important book."

—Eric Hooglund, editor, Middle East Critique

“A wide-ranging, knowledgeable survey of some of the most colorful, yet sometimes inexplicably forgotten, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British travelers in the Levant. He has mastered the personal and intellectual biographies of well-known personalities such as Burton, Doughty and T. E. Lawrence, but also those of lesser known writers such as Robert Cunninghame Graham and Marmaduke Pickthall. He fleshes out the stereotype of the ‘white man abroad’ by embedding these individuals in their historical contexts and allowing us to see their flawed, quirky and sometimes heroic humanity….Long's book provides a vivid picture of the social and intellectual atmospheres within which British travelers swanned, splashed and stumbled through history.”

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