Most travellers to Palestine kept to the west of the Jordan, but Ewing, who spoke Arabic, went among the villagers and nomads beyond it. He describes the people, the ruins of a great past and the scenery of the region, and the secretive religion of the Druze, whose deeper teachings are reserved for the initiated.
A rare close-up of a little-visited region a century ago, for readers interested in the Levant. Download the free EPUB.