Lebanon a history, 600-2011 by Harris, William W.

Table of Contents: “…Foundations -- Emerging communities, 600-1291 -- Druze ascent, 1291-1633 -- Mountain lords, 1633-1842 -- Modern Lebanon -- Emerging Lebanon, 1842-1943 -- Independent Lebanon, 1943-1975 -- Broken Lebanon, 1975-2011…”

Wilfred Thesiger the life of the great explorer by Maitland, Alexander

Table of Contents: “…The Emperor Menelik's 'new flower' -- Hope and fortune -- Gorgeous barbarity -- 'One handsome rajah' -- Passages to India and England -- The cold, bleak English Downs -- Eton: lasting respect and veneration -- Shrine of my youth -- The mountains of Arussi -- Across the Sultanate of Aussa -- Savage Sudan -- The Nuer -- Rape of my homeland -- Among the Druze -- The flowering desert -- Palestine: shifting lights and shades -- Prelude to Arabia -- Arabian sands -- Marsh and mountain -- Among the mountains -- A winter in Copenhagen -- Camel journeys to the Jade Sea -- With nomadic tribes in other lands -- Kenya days…”

Lebanon 1860-1960 a century of myth and politics by Kanaan, Claude Boueiz