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MAN IN ARID LANDS: NORTH FROM JIDDAH
Paul F. Hoye
Jiddah
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March 1
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Outside Medina
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March 2
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In Camp
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March 3
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In Camp
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March 4
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Zummurrud
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March 4
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Mada'in Salih
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March 5
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March 6
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March 7
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March 8
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March 9
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Notes on the Nabateans by Thomas Barger
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Years ago in America the lonely grandeur of plain and sky
and mountain inspired a hymn that sang of a vast and lovely land
stretching away to the majesty of purple mountains towering up
toward blue and spacious skies. The hymn was called America
the Beautiful.
Recently, beneath the spacious skies of another much older
land, the lyrics of that hymn came, almost unconsciously, to the
lips of a small party of Americans traveling through the northwestern corner of Saudi Arabia. For there, in a valley of golden
sandstone, they found Arabia the Beautiful.
The valley is called Mada'in Salih—the "City of Salih"—and
it lies on an ancient caravan route 500 miles north of Jiddah
deep in the region called the Hijaz. Around it are other valleys
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