'Route to Petra from Teyaha', c1915. '(Note: None of these watercourses contain perennial streams)'. Map showing the journey of British writer, soldier and diplomatic advisor Mark Sykes to the archaeological site of Petra in Jordan (at that time part of the Ottoman Empire). Features marked include 'ancient rock hewn road', 'Robbers Outpost', and Ma'an railway station. Sykes (1879-1919) travelled through Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Persia and Turkey between 1905 and 1913, was honorary attach? to the British Embassy in Constantinople 1905-1906, was elected to parliament, worked in the Intelligence department of the War Office during the First World War, and died of the Spanish flu aged 39. From "The Caliphs' Last Heritage, a short history of the Turkish Empire" by Lt.-Col. Sir Mark Sykes. [Macmillan & Co, London, 1915]