Introduction / by John Hughes -- Adventures of Thomas Pellow / by Thomas Pellow -- The horde of the Welad Sliman / by Heinrich Barth -- From al-Suwayrkiyah to Meccah / by Sir Richard Burton -- The desert of devils / by Armin Vambery -- Abou Do's blade tastes blood / by Sir Samuel Baker -- The new Pilgrim's progress / by Mark Twain -- The khan of Khiva / by Frederick Gustavus Burnaby -- Ismail deserts / by Lady Anne Blunt -- The Aryans of Sarikol / by Ella Sykes -- My ride to Sheshouan / by Walter B. Harris -- To Marrakesh on a bicycle / by Budgett Meakin -- Morocco, the land of the extreme west / by Ion Perdicaris -- Loading a camel / by A.H.W. Haywood -- Approaching a perilous pass / by P.T. Etherton -- A bloodthirsty band of brigands / by Ernest H. Griffin -- Toward the city of emperors / by John Reed -- Lawrence the train-wrecker / by Lowell Thomas -- The defense of Kotur-Dagh / by Rafael de Nogales -- Escape / by Albert Bartels -- Intelligence in Transcaucasia / by Alfred Rawlinson -- Mysterious gorges / by L.V.S. Blacker -- A faulty guide on a waterless way / by Rosita Forbes -- The siege of the Qeshlah / by Zetton Buchanan -- Shooting expeditions / by George-Marie Haardt and Lucien Audouin-Dubreuil.