Forty days in the desert, on the track of the Israelites: or a journey from Cairo by Wady Feiran, to Mount Sinai and Petra
Forty Days in the Desert is a travel narrative by William Henry Bartlett, published in 1840, describing a journey from Cairo through Wadi Feiran to Mount Sinai and Petra for a British reading public. The four engravings show caravans resting among rock-cut monuments, a Petra theatre carved into cliffs, and distant sandstone mountain ranges, offering a designer rich material on desert landscape, classical ruins and camel travel.
