...artist, traveller, and man of sciei " It is a gaunt land of splintered peaks, torn valleys, and hot els And at every step there is the suggestion of the fierce, the defii the defensive. Everything within its borders seems fighting maintain itself against destroying...

...the eternal strength of it, the poetry of its wide-spread chaos, the sublimity of its desolation ! It is a gaunt land of splintered peaks, torn valleys,...suggestion of the fierce, the defiant, the defensive." This is a bit of the writer's power, a glimpse at the desert picture. Such passages abound in the book:...

...of lava-stones, he spoke as a son of the desert. John C. Van Dyke, describing the desert, calls it "a gaunt land of splintered peaks, torn valleys, and...for ferocity is unparalleled elsewhere in nature." And such was the environment in which Mohammed received his revelation. The Moslems' conception of...

...of lava-stones, he spoke as a son of the desert. John C. Van Dyke, describing the desert, calls it "a gaunt land of splintered peaks, torn valleys, and...is a war of elements and a struggle for existence found not elsewhere in nature." Such was the environment in which Mohammed received his revelation....