Les voyages dans le Ḥawrān, Syrie du Sud, de William John Bankes : 1816 et 1818

When in 1816 William John Bankes came in the Hawran (South Syria), he was one of the first travellers in a country full of numerous antique vestiges. Attracted by the monuments, the houses, the greek inscrptions and the landscapes, he made many drawing, water colours, plans and obervations in the sixty villages he visited. All these documents remained unknown and unpublished until their discovery, by chance, in 1992, at Kingston Lacy manor (Dorset).

This book is the integral publication of Bankes's work in the Hawran where he spent nine weeks between 1816 and 1818. The first part gives a description and a translation of all the nineten hundreeed original documents and the second parts, village by village, wants to demonstrate the great interest of the observations and informations given by the traveller about a country that has undergone much transformation since he visited it.