Barbara Toy was a well-known traveller and explorer. Elected a fellow of the RGS for her visits to Iceland, Yugoslavia, Greece and Lebanon, she later became the first Westerner to set foot on the summit of Mount Wahni in Ethiopia and received the Rover Award (an award granted only once before) for her transit of North Africa from the Niger River to the Mediterranean. Described by Philip Llewellin as a 'traveller in the most full-blooded sense of the word', Toy was the author of several acclaimed books, including In search of Sheba, A Fool on Wheels, Rendezvous in Cyprus and The Way of the Chariots. She died in Banbury in 2001 at the age of 92.

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• Prologue1 Unwelcome Traveller2 Over the Jol3 Mukalla4 Open Sesame5 Towards the Yemen6 Live Now - Die Later7 Royalist Friends8 Sheba Came This Way9 The Waking Giant10 Into the High Asir11 The Forbidden City12 'Jeddah - of Frankish Consuls'13 The Hijaz Railway14 Madain Salih - Tombs of the Nabataeans15 The Midian16 The King's HighwayIndex

Barbara Toy was a well-known traveller and explorer. Elected a fellow of the RGS for her visits to Iceland, Yugoslavia, Greece and Lebanon, she later became the first Westerner to set foot on the summit of Mount Wahni in Ethiopia and received the Rover Award (an award granted only once before) for her transit of North Africa from the Niger River to the Mediterranean. Described by Philip Llewellin as a 'traveller in the most full-blooded sense of the word', Toy was the author of several acclaimed books, including In search of Sheba, A Fool on Wheels, Rendezvous in Cyprus and The Way of the Chariots. She died in Banbury in 2001 at the age of 92.

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• Prologue1 Unwelcome Traveller2 Over the Jol3 Mukalla4 Open Sesame5 Towards the Yemen6 Live Now - Die Later7 Royalist Friends8 Sheba Came This Way9 The Waking Giant10 Into the High Asir11 The Forbidden City12 'Jeddah - of Frankish Consuls'13 The Hijaz Railway14 Madain Salih - Tombs of the Nabataeans15 The Midian16 The King's HighwayIndex

Barbara Toy was a well-known traveller and explorer. Elected a fellow of the RGS for her visits to Iceland, Yugoslavia, Greece and Lebanon, she later became the first Westerner to set foot on the summit of Mount Wahni in Ethiopia and received the Rover Award (an award granted only once before) for her transit of North Africa from the Niger River to the Mediterranean. Described by Philip Llewellin as a 'traveller in the most full-blooded sense of the word', Toy was the author of several acclaimed books, including In search of Sheba, A Fool on Wheels, Rendezvous in Cyprus and The Way of the Chariots. She died in Banbury in 2001 at the age of 92.

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• Prologue1 Unwelcome Traveller2 Over the Jol3 Mukalla4 Open Sesame5 Towards the Yemen6 Live Now - Die Later7 Royalist Friends8 Sheba Came This Way9 The Waking Giant10 Into the High Asir11 The Forbidden City12 'Jeddah - of Frankish Consuls'13 The Hijaz Railway14 Madain Salih - Tombs of the Nabataeans15 The Midian16 The King's HighwayIndex