A distinct line may at once be drawn between this and other books of peregrinations in the East. These Travels exhibit what others do not--a heroine who marches at the head of Arab tribes through the Syrian desert; who calls governors of cities to her aid, whilst she excavates the earth in search of hidden treasures; who sends generals with their troops to carry fire and sword into the fearful passes of a mountainous country, to avenge the death of a murdered traveller; and who then goes, defenceless and unprotected, a sojourner amidst the people on whom these chastisements had fallen. This work embraces a period reaching from the thirty-sixth to the forty-third year of Lady Hester's life. (1812-1819)
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