Mabel Virginia Anna Hall-Dare, the wife of English archaeologist and explorer James Theodore Bent, kept a series of notebooks on her travels. This volume is the first of a planned set, presenting the adventures of the couple throughout the world. The research of the couple led to a number of highly regarded monographs and finds that were to place them securely amongst the foremost British travellers of the later half of the nineteenth century. This volume represents the discovery of a lost and notable milestone for scholars and travel enthusiasts of all kinds. It begins with Mabel's account...

Mabel Virginia Anna Hall-Dare was the extraordinary wife of the English explorer and archaeologist James Theodore Bent. In the early 1880s the couple began a fifteen-year series of highly-regarded geographical, archaeological and ethnographical researches in the eastern Mediterranean, Africa and Arabia. This volume presents Mabel Bent's hitherto unpublished Chronicle, covering their travels in southern Arabia and Persia.