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The most detailed account and description of pre-Islamic Arabia, Anatolia and their resources and physical geography I have ever read. Very educational so far. I like the notes on Sassanian urban development, the facts about their city and irrigation building surprised me.

‘It is by solidity of criticism more than by the plenitude of erudition, that the study of history strengthens, and straightens, and extends the mind.’ ‘For the critic’, continued Lord Acton, ‘is one who, when he lights on an interesting statement, begins by suspecting it.’