Destination Mecca

First published in 1957, Destination Mecca was both an ambitious travel book and a work of ethnographic and cultural research. Shah documents a wide range of fascinating journeys, from his quest for the gold mines of King Solomon on Sudan's Red Sea Coast, to encounters in desert caravanserais and sojourns with Mediterranean contraband smugglers, to his time as a personal guest of the elderly King Ibn Saud. As readable now as it was when first published, Destination Mecca acts as a beacon for hands on adventurers and those of a more sedate kind.

Publicata pentru prima data in 1957, Destinatia Mecca a fost atat o carte de calatorii ambitioasa, cat si o lucrare de cercetare etnografica si culturala. Shah documenteaza o gama larga de calatorii fascinante, de la cautarea minelor de aur ale regelui Solomon pe coasta Marii Rosii a Sudanului, pana la intalniri in caravanserais din desert si sedere cu contrabandisti de contrabanda mediteraneana, pana la timpul sau de invitat personal al regelui in varsta Ibn Saud .