The Middle East Traveller's Handbook

Pyramids, Petra, souks and desert nights — the Middle East is on many travellers' lists and in few travellers' plans, because the region is misunderstood more than it is visited. Headlines flatten it. A short guide reduces it to icons. The traveller who goes with only icons comes home with photos and no understanding.

This 256-page handbook helps you plan respectfully and well, from Dubai and Abu Dhabi to Egypt, Jordan, Oman and beyond. You will find itinerary dossiers planned in full, a site atlas of twenty wonders, a souk and market atlas, and a desert handbook for sand, stars and survival craft.

Inside are ten capitals in working detail, a traveller's history in four movements, more journeys for a second tier of trips, a food atlas of forty dishes and where they live, places to sleep with character, and a transport atlas of routes and the craft of moving.

This is for first-time visitors and returning travellers who want depth, not just icons. It is not for travellers who want the region reduced to a single story — this book insists on its places, food, history and people, in all their variety.

A short guide gives you the famous sights. A complete handbook helps you understand the region — and travel it well.

You will also learn how to dress, greet and photograph respectfully, and how to ask questions that open doors instead of closing them.

Get the complete handbook today for only $10.99 — and discover the Middle East, planned respectfully.

By Yovwe Samuels