Last Train from Damascus: A Journey Along the Hejaz Railway

An unforgettable journey through the Middle East that follows the history of the miraculous and promise-filled Hejaz Railway.

Just over a century ago, it was possible to leave Damascus by train and head south, into the desert, towards the holy city of Medina. The laying of 800 miles of track at the dawn of the twentieth century offered a political and military lifeline for the ailing Ottoman Empire, and revolutionized the Hajj pilgrimage from a forty-day overland ordeal to just three days by...