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George G. Harrap, London, 1946. Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket in protective mylar covering. First Edition. 8 1/2 X 5 1/2. Original binding in orange cloth with gilt title. With a forward by Freya Stark and sixty-four plates in Half-tone. 169 pages, includes index. Colour map printed end papers. A very nice tight, clean, straight. An account of his journey to Ibn Saud at the time when Saudia Arabia was newly formed. Fine book in a dust jacket. Price unclipped.
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Arabia Phoenix: An Account of a Visit to Ibn Saud, Chieftain of the Austere Wahhabis and Powerful Arabian King
by De Gaury, Gerald
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The Arabs and the English
by NASIR Sari J
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Red Cloth with gilt lettering and in illustrated dust jacket protected in mylar. An examination of the stereotypes of the Arabs as they are seen in the West.
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The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls (the Complete Series)
by Philip R. Davies, George J. Brooke, Phillip R. Callaway
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1st Edition. 216 illustrations, 84 in colour. No marks or inscriptions.
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Daughter of the Desert: The remarkable life of Gertrude Bell
by HOWELL, Georgina
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Hard Cover. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. First Edition. F/F. 8vo. original grey boards with gilt letter in dust jacket with mylar protective cover; pp. xxiv, 520 (last blank), with illustrations.Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty. The daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Gertrude turned her back on house parties and debutante balls, choosing instead to read history at Oxford, where she took a first in only two years. [This book] is her story, vividly told and impeccably researched, drawing on Gertrude's own writings, both published and unpublished. It is a compelling portrait of a woman who transcended the restrictions of her class and age and in so doing created a remarkable and enduring legacy."
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Daughters of Arabia
by Sasson, Jean
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Blue cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Readers of Princess Sultana's extraordinary biography Princess were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. They were every bit as fascinated by the sequel, Daughters of Arabia. Here, the princess turns the spotlight on her two daughters, Maha and Amani, both teenagers. Surrounded by untold opulence and luxury from the day they were born, but stifled by the unbearably restrictive lifestyle imposed on them, they reacted in equally desperate ways. Their dramatic and shocking stories, together with many more which concern other members of Princess Sultana's huge family, are set against a rich backdrop of Saudi Arabian culture and social mores which she depicts with equal colour and authenticity. We learn, for example, of the fascinating ritual of the world-famous annual pilgrimage to Makkah as we accompany the princess and her family to this holiest of cities. Throughout, however, she never…
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The Dust of the Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland
by Meyer, Karl E.
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Near Fine First Edition (May 1, 2003) First Edition First Printing 237 uncut pages with B&W illustrations in text. Maps on endpapers. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. Unclipped dustjacket in fine condition.Veteran US journalist Meyer, coauthor of Tournament of shadows: the great game and race for empire in Central Asia (1999), seeks to educate Americans in the post-9/11 terrorist war context about the history of a perennial "hotspot" that has long viewed the US as an empire. Includes a map of Asia and photos of US, British, and Soviet players in the region
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A Dweller in Mesopotamia
by Maxwell, Donald
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First Edition. With 28 fine plates, including 16 in colour and 12 in monochrome, and with 34 line drawings within the text, many of which are quite large, decorated title-page printed in black and red. Publisher's original olive cloth-covered boards backed in buckram and ruled and lettered on the spine in dark green titling to spine. Top edge of pages green with front and bottom edges untrimmed. Sound and firm with no staining or foxing to contents. A very clean and tight copy, the text clean and fresh, the plates all very fine, the binding solid.Maxwell, an official artist sent by the Imperial War Museum, was a most original writer, artist and traveler.
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Equator Crossings-Travelogue Extraordinary
by Paul Huygelen
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As New Hardback in unclipped As New Dust jacket, 631 pages 32 Photographs 23.5cm x 15.5cmEquator Crossings: Travelogue Extraordinary is set against a backdrop of nineteenth-century Africa, Zanzibar, Europe and Oman. An upstage American press magnate's single three-letter-word telegram to his British competitor leads Henry Morton Stanley to 999 gruelling days of exploration in a quest to discover and define the watersheds of Africa's two gigantic rivers, the Nile and the Congo. This geographical and scientific feat, that drastically changed the economic and political history of the world, now provides an epic narrative of adventure, travel and romance.Paul Huygelen's professional career has been mostly involved in international affairs, be it with the United Nations, a multinational corporation or a major Middle East financial institution. His thorough knowledge of East and Central Africa, through his extensive business trips in the region, helped him with the research fo rhis book. In the framework of…
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From Cairo to the Cataract
by Carson, Blanche Mabury
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L. C. Page & Company, Boston, 1909. Original Hardcover V. Good First Edition. Decorative endpapers, Rough cut pages on fore-edge and lower edge sound and tight. ; 330pp + 47pls. ; In protective jacket.
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Girls of Riyadh: A Novel
by Alsanea, Rajaa
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Near Fine in fine unclipped dust jacket in protective mylar. Hardcover first edition - First printing. A debut novel, originally published in Arabic in Lebanon, which discusses frankly the " social, romantic and sexual tribulations of four young women from elite classes of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia." Translated by Rajaa Alsanea and Marilyn Booth. Includes glossary of names, 286 pp. Originally banned in Saudi Arabia, the tale of four young women university students from Riyadh follows their struggles to navigate the precarious paths between desire, fulfillment, and Islamic tradition while witnessing the ways in which the Arab world is being changed by new economic and political realities
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Illustrated Library of Travel: Travels in Arabia: Travels in Arabia
by Taylor, Bayard
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Original brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and designs on cover and along spine; very light rubbing along spine and tips. Binding and hinges tight and square; contents clean and unmarked except for previous owners inscription dated 1892.
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Ionia: A Quest.
by STARK, Freya.
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First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper in protective mylar. 23.5 × 15.5cm, 263pp Octavo. Original blue cloth boards, titles to front gilt and to spine black, top edge blue, others untrimmed. Pictorial dust-jacket priced at 30s net, sketch map drawn by E.G. Morton, photographic plates throughout and in-text drawings by the author. Title-page wood-cut vignette by Reynolds Stone, double page black and red map by E. G. Morton.Stark recounts her travels through what is now western Turkey, all the while reflecting on the great works of the classical authors, particularly Herodotus the historian and Pausanias the geographer.
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Middle East: A History
by Sydney Nettleton Fisher The Ohio State University
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Revised edition with Maps, Index, Contents and Preface. A comprehensive edition with extensive references.
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The New Gulf: How Modern Arabia is Changing the World for Good
by Edmund O'Sullivan
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. With illustrations in colour, A fine copy in fine dustjacket. This absorbing new publication provides a concise but complete description of the Arabian countries benefiting most from the affluence sweeping the Middle East in the 21st century. The New Gulf ? How Modern Arabia is Changing the World for Good focuses on the economic, social and political transformation sweeping the Gulf states: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. It provides a timely explanation of how the region was developed and the significant impact it will have in the world in the years to come.
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Recipes and Remembrances From an Eastern Mediterranean Kitchen: A Culinary Journey Through Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan
by Sonia Uvezian
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A Fine copy. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine in protective mylar. No markings or rubbings. Printed on acid free paper with purple end-pages. This culinary milestone has been hailed as a masterpiece, a classic, and the first and last word on eastern Mediterranean cooking. A welcome blend of scholarship and entertaining reading, this revelatory work features a wide range of authentic, clearly written recipes, many personal reminiscences, impressive culinary history, valuable information on ingredients, meals, and traditions, stunning period illustrations, and much more.
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Splendors of Islam
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