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Cover Tahirshah.com Title Page IN SEARCH OF KING SOLOMON’S MINES

Acknowledgements ONE - Ali Baba’s Map TWO - Seven Stones THREE - The Father of Madness FOUR - The Mines FIVE - Children of the Devil SIX - Breakfast with Idi Amin SEVEN - The Emperor’s Jeep EIGHT - Sheba’s Gold NINE - The Jinn of Suleiman TEN - The Place of Gold ELEVEN - Prester John TWELVE - The Mad Sultan THIRTEEN - Used Mules FOURTEEN - Tullu Wallel FIFTEEN - Return to the Accursed Mountain Glossary Bibliography

BEYOND THE DEVIL'S TEETH

Foreword PART ONE: NORTH GONDWANALAND

India and Pakistan

ONE - The Sword of Shah Safi TWO - Servants with Children THREE - Too-Feee and Eunuchs FOUR - Send the Fool Another Mile FIVE - The Alchemist’s Assistant SIX - Abdul the Warrior SEVEN - Leaving the Nest EIGHT - Here Comes the King

PART TWO: CENTRAL GONDWANALAND

West and East Africa

NINE - Rats Eating Cats TEN - My Name is Zakaria ELEVEN - In Search of the Source TWELVE - Beowulf and Buckweed

PART THREE: WEST GONDWANALAND

South America

THIRTEEN - Beyond the Devil’s Teeth FOURTEEN - Opera in the Jungle FIFTEEN - For the Need of a Thneed SIXTEEN - The Mountains of Blue Ice

Glossary

HOUSE OF THE TIGER KING

Arab proverb Introduction ONE - Blistered Feet TWO - Qualifications of a Traveller THREE - Size of the Party FOUR - Conditions in Success and Failure in Travel FIVE - Presents and Articles for Payment SIX - Reputed Dangers of Travel SEVEN - Engaging Natives EIGHT - Bones NINE - Warm Carcasses TEN - Porters for Delicate Instruments ELEVEN - Wasp and Scorpion Stings TWELVE - Drowning THIRTEEN - Fever FOURTEEN - Good Temper FIFTEEN - Pitching A Tent SIXTEEN - Portable Food SEVENTEEN - Bivouac EIGHTEEN - Seizing Food EPILOGUE - On Concluding the Journey Glossary Bibliography

SORCERER'S APPRENTICE

Dedication Author’s Note Foreword PART ONE

ONE - He Who Scatters Souls TWO - Snake Jugglers and Liposuction THREE - Land of Warriors FOUR - City of Light FIVE - Waiting Out the Jinns SIX - Renting Babies

PART TWO

SEVEN - Calcutta Torture EIGHT - Sorcerer’s Apprentice NINE - Swallowing Stones TEN - Insider Information ELEVEN - Metro Marriage TWELVE - Curse of the Skeleton Dealers

PART THREE

THIRTEEN - Dick Whittington and the Black Hole FOURTEEN - The Secret Army FIFTEEN - Witch SIXTEEN - No Little Girls SEVENTEEN - Disneyland of the Soul EIGHTEEN - The Yogi’s Last Breath NINETEEN - Real Power TWENTY - The Penniless Billionaire TWENTY-ONE - Take One Live Murrel Fish… TWENTY-TWO - Lord Elvis TWENTY-THREE - Duel of Miracles TWENTY-FOUR - Jimmy, the Part-time God

Glossary

TRAVELS WITH MYSELF

ONE - Aboard the Maharajah Express TWO - A Conversation Paid for in Postage Stamps THREE - A Labyrinth in Fès FOUR - A Price on Their Heads FIVE - Brazil’s Sanctuaries From Abuse SIX - Buying A Home in Morocco SEVEN - Café Clock Cookbook EIGHT - Cairo’s City of the Dead NINE - Casablanca Junk TEN - Chatwin and The Songlines ELEVEN - Chefchaouen TWELVE - Colonial Clubs of India THIRTEEN - Damascus FOURTEEN - Desert Stopover FIFTEEN - Essaouira, A Portrait SIXTEEN - Fès SEVENTEEN - Friendship, Morocco EIGHTEEN - Gendercide NINETEEN - Goldeneye TWENTY - In Cambodia’s New Killing Fields TWENTY-ONE - In Search of King Solomon’s Mines TWENTY-TWO - In the Scorpion Palace TWENTY-THREE - The Islamic Legacy of Timbuktu TWENTY-FOUR - Jinn Lore TWENTY-FIVE - Jma el Fna TWENTY-SIX - Little Lhasa TWENTY-SEVEN - Love in the Desert TWENTY-EIGHT - Memoir of a Torture Jail TWENTY-NINE - Morocco’s Alpine Hideaway THIRTY - Morocco’s Pirate Realm THIRTY-ONE - Moulay Idriss THIRTY-TWO - Of All the Medinas in the World THIRTY-THREE - Old Cape Town THIRTY-FOUR - On The River of God THIRTY-FIVE - On the Skeleton Coast THIRTY-SIX - Ostrich Hats and Model T’s THIRTY-SEVEN - The People of the Cloak THIRTY-EIGHT - Queen of the Ku Klux Klan THIRTY-NINE - Remembering Sir Wilfred FORTY - Romantic Travel FORTY-ONE - The Royal Mansour, Marrakech FORTY-TWO - Subcontinent of Miracles FORTY-THREE - Swallowing Live Fish FORTY-FOUR - Swiss Movement FORTY-FIVE - Tetouan FORTY-SIX - The Afghan Notebook FORTY-SEVEN - The Fattening Rooms FORTY-EIGHT - The Favour Network FORTY-NINE - The Forgotten Women of Bhopal FIFTY - The Guerrilla Girls FIFTY-ONE - The Khalili Collection of Islamic Art FIFTY-TWO - The Laughter Club FIFTY-THREE - The Magic of the Ordinary FIFTY-FOUR - The Mango Rains FIFTY-FIVE - The Mother Teresa Bandwagon FIFTY-SIX - The Penniless Trillionaire FIFTY-SEVEN - The Queen of Assamese Hearts FIFTY-EIGHT - The Romance of Richard Halliburton FIFTY-NINE - The Sanctuary of Lot SIXTY - To Tibet SIXTY-ONE - Where Widows Go to Die SIXTY-TWO - Women on Death Row

TRAIL OF FEATHERS

Quote Flight ONE - The Feather TWO - Valley of the Dead Pilots THREE - Inca Trail Warriors FOUR - Cusco FIVE - A Sacrifice SIX - Tower-Jumpers SEVEN - Festival of Blood EIGHT - Susto NINE - The Trophy Head TEN - Vampires ELEVEN - Conspiracy TWELVE - Guinea Pig Healer THIRTEEN - The Tsantsa’s Cheek FOURTEEN - Iquitos FIFTEEN - Big Bug Business SIXTEEN - Vine of the Dead SEVENTEEN - Saigon of South America EIGHTEEN - Green Hell NINETEEN - Two Wishes TWENTY - River of Lies TWENTY-ONE - Gold Teeth TWENTY-TWO - Wawek TWENTY-THREE - Ancient Ballads TWENTY-FOUR - Trumpets of the Devil TWENTY-FIVE - Love the Jungle TWENTY-SIX - The Avenging Soul TWENTY-SEVEN - Flight of the Birdmen Appendix 1 - Amazonian Flora-Based Hallucinogens Appendix 2 - The Shuar Glossary Bibliography

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