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Testimony to the high regard in which her book is held is that since publication it has rarely been out of print, and in that same Preface Mabel describes how she relied for her source material not only on Theodore's notebooks but also on her personal diaries, or 'Chronicles that I always wrote during our journeys'. After more than a hundred years, Mabel Bent's Chronicles (held in the archive of the Joint Library of the Hellenic and Roman Societies, London) now follow her Southern Arabia into publication for the first time, along with personal documents and editorial notes that contextualise the significance of these extensive explorations û by two of the great British travellers of the 19th century û within the history of Victorian travel writing. --Book Jacket.