Shtar

Crux of our plan was the attack on Aba el Lissan, lest the force in Maan have time to sally out, relieve it, and drive us off the head of Shtar.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Shtar hill-side swooped away below us for hundreds and hundreds of feet, in curves like bastions, against which summer-morning clouds were breaking: and from its foot opened the new earth of the

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

The air was thin and bumpy, so that we hardly scraped over the crest of Shtar.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Nagb el Shtar, the first difficult pass of the Maan-Akaba road.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

In a shaded nook he and Auda would sit and talk till the little shiver of excitement tightened up and down the crowded ledges when first was heard the song of the engine over the pass of Shtar.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Shtar — down which the road dipped from the Maan plateau to the red Guweira plain.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Afterwards the going was easier, the last two miles to the head of Shtar being frozen like iron.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

He would there be covered by the descent of Shtar, and the Guweira sands.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

We walked down the whole zigzag pass of Shtar, to feel its excellence, for on our camels we rocked too much with sleep to dare see anything.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Shtar, a young band from Yeshivat Aish HaTorah in the Old City of Jerusalem was not actually in the competition but performed a well-received set.

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