In Search of Sheba

by Barbara Toy

This is the fifth of Barbara Toy's journeys made alone with no schedule or sponsors. All her journeys previously have been in search of little known places and peoples, but this time she went back three thousand years, looking for traces of one of the most elusive characters in history - the Queen of Sheba.
Miss Toy's book is full of strange and usual encounters with people and unfamiliar places.

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction

242 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1961

About the author

Barbara Alex Toy FRGS (11 August 1908 – 18 July 2001) was an Australian-British travel writer, theatrical director, playwright, and screenplay writer. She is most famous for the series of books she wrote about her pioneering and solitary travels around the world in a Land Rover, undertaken in the 1950s and 1960s. Toy was drawn to deserts, and so the majority of her journeys were in the arid lands of Northern Africa and the Middle East.
Toy's first solo journey took place almost five years before the perhaps more celebrated six-man team Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition, a London to Singapore overland trip between September 1955 and March 1956 that was also undertaken in Land Rovers.

Reviews

[Alex Hutton · Rating 3 out of 5]

i love travel writing!! Barbara drives across the Sahara solo in 1959 & boy is the language a product of it's time...:/ full of adventure & grit but I would have really appreciated some pictures/maps to accompany her descriptions