Eastern Nights & Flights

CONTENTS


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Prologue. Through the Looking Glass 3


CHAPTER

I. Pain, Purgatory, and a Plan 13

II. The Flight That Failed 27

III. Nazareth; and the Christian Charity of a Jew 39

IV. Damascus; and the Second Failure 64

V. The Berlin-Bagdad Railway; and the Aeroplanes That
Never Flew 90

VI. Cuthbert, Alfonso, and a Mud Village 110

VII. In the Shadow of the Black Rock 124

VIII. Constantinople; and How to Become Mad 140

IX. Introducing Theodore the Greek, John Willie the
Bosnian, and David Lloyd George's Second Cousin 159

X. The Third and Fourth Failures 175

XI. A Greek Waitress, a German Beerhouse, a Turkish
Policeman, and a Russian Ship 189

XII. The Face at the Window 203

XIII. A Shipload of Rogues 213

XIV. The City of Disguises 230

XV. Stowaways, Inc. 250

XVI. A Russian Interlude 266

XVII. Sofia, Salonika, and So to Bed 281

Epilogue. A Damascus Postscript; and Some Words on the
Knights of Araby, A Crusader in Shorts, a Very Noble
Ladye, and Some Happy Endings 286