Thesiger, WilfredMareMagnum
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A9788857248936Hardback. New. hardcover
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8 pages, plus photographic plates and a fold-out colour map, measuring approximately 11.5 x 8.5 inches (29 x 22cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. This is a fascinating expedition report on Nuristan - the little known part of the Hindu Kush which lies inside Afghanistan to the north of Jalalabad along the Chitral border. Excerpt from the introduction: "Sir George Scott Robertson was the first European to visit this country, in 1889. Nuristan was then independent, and known as Kafiristan and its inhabitants as Kafirs. Kipling wrote his famous story "The Man Who Would Be King" about this country. Two important German Expeditions travelled extensively in Nuristan, and owing to that the Nuristans refer to all Europeans as Germans..." End Excerpt Wilfred Thesiger is perhaps the last, and certainly one of the greatest of the British travellers. Thesiger had the immense ability to describe very vividly the life and ways of the peoples and places he explored and visited. His work shines with his clear attachment to them. After leaving Arabia he travelled extensively in the Karakoram and the Hindu Kush (the setting of his meeting with Eric Newby immortalised in Newby's A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush), the mountains of Kurdistan and the marshlands of Iraq.
A9788857248936Hardback. New. hardcover
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little indenting and with minor creasing to edges. 571pp. A massive compendium of all the significant travellers, explorers, adventurers and wanderers from the ibn Battuta to Michael Loyd, from Englebert Kaempfer to Bertram Thomas, who have left written records of their journeys in Oman.
8vo., Eighteenth Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp, copy. Thomas's account - arguably the best after Lawrence's own - was first published in the UK in 1925, a year after the US edition. O'Brien E013 (recording the twelfth to twenty-fourth editions).
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20 pages. Plus photographic plates and a large fold-out colour map measuring approximately 8 x 15 inches (20 x 38cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. Some crease to pages and wrappers, otherwise this is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. The author focuses on the plateau of Sarhad, including the massive Kih-i-Taftan volcano, a region which he names 'the Highlands of Persian Baluchistan,' both because of the pre-eminent height of its mountain masses and because of the traditional wildness and ferocity of the hill tribes which inhabit it. The then Persian sub-province of Baluchistan was formerly a part of the Kerman Ayalat. Skrine describes interesting Sarhad features from various perspectives: botany, geology, ethnology and history. Featuring the earth pillar at Tamindan, descriptions of Sarhad's capital - Vasht or Khwash; the indigenous Damanis; Gwarkuh; Bazman; the Ropask glen and the tombs of the Seventy Mullahs; the people of Anjirak; aboriginal Sarhaddis and the Shrine of the Chihil Tan or Forty Beings, Mecca of Sarhad.
A spectacular detailed fold-out color map, measuring 11 x 11 inches (28 x 28cm), in original condition. The map is taken from "A Further Journey Across the Empty Quarter", published in June 1949 issue of the Royal Geographical Society, illustrating Thesiger's journey through western and northern Rub al Khali from November 1947 to May 1948. Wilfred Thesiger is perhaps the last, and certainly one of the greatest of the British travellers among the Arabs, his narrative is vividly written. After leaving Arabia he travelled extensively in the Karakoram and the Hindu Kush (the setting of his meeting with Eric Newby immortalised in Newby's A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush), the mountains of Kurdistan and the marshlands of Iraq. But he says that none of these places moved him as did the deserts of Arabia. He spent five years in the region travelling on camels and on foot across some ten thousand miles of a vast empty land. What he found, as in his time with the people of the Iraq marshes which he described in his book The Marsh Arabs, was a way on life on the threshold of destruction.
1919445121 vol. in-12 br., Librairie Plon, Les Petits-Fils de Plon et Nourrit, Paris, 1919, 300 pp.
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8vo. 17 pages including a sketch map map, plus photographic plates for illustration. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. Delving beyond the geographical wonders of Makran's waterless rivers and mountain ranges, aside from the objective of geologically mapping a strip along the coast 50 miles wide, from Jask to the Baluchistan border, Harrison describes the native way of life. By examining the then sultan-governed region in a series of inland traverses, he encounters and interacts with the Baloch people as well as Muslims. Of the Balochs, Harrison provides a substantial account of customs including survival and sustenance in a harsh land, graves, costume, date harvesting, and much more. Illustrations show graves, a cliff dwelling, mat huts, the badlands near Bandini, and a mud volcano. One of Makran's outstanding features described is the water-courses seldom contained water and had subsequently become the natural roads for travel, where the means were limited to camels or donkeys. Other geological aspects were perplexing findings, and described in scientific terms. Of the scientific explorers of Persian Baluchistan, J.V. Harrison, D.Sc., occupied a leading role. By the time of this account, the author had been for twenty years a member of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and had made numerous expeditions to the area, the first being in 1917. In the present account he describes a journey made in 1932, part of a multi-year undertaking with plans made for as far ahead as 1937.
New English Paperback. Oblong 4to. (26 x 26 cm). In English and Turkish. 210 p., ills. "For both Muslims and those unfamiliar with the Islamic faith, Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant provides access to the heart of Islam an exploration of the holiest sites of one of the great spiritual traditions. A fascinating entry into a world whose core is religion,where there is no division between the secular and the sacred, Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant rendersthrough photographs and text the essence of Muslim traditions and beliefs.". The holiest cities of Islam. Mecca the Radiant, Medina the Blessed.= Mukaddes beldeler. Mekke-i Mükerreme, Medine-i Münevvere.
Spine a bit browned; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 453 pages
Small tear to spine covering. Spine faded. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Slight wear to extremities; A detailed account of a trip through the Middle East under the auspices of Unesco. With 66 photographs taken by the author; B&W & Color Photographs; 8vo; 310 pages
New English Papperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 501 p. The Idrisi Emirate of South East Arabia. Giado (Libya), Jizan (Saudi Arabia) & San'a (Yemen), 1767-1973. Introduction 1. The rise of Sabya and Abu Arish, 1730-1923, (1142/3-1341/2 2. Syed Mohammed el Idrisi: the first revolt, 1900-1914, (1317/18-1333) 3. The Anglo-Idrisi treaties, 1914-1925, (1333/1344/5) 4. The Red Sea blockade and struggle for influence on the Yemeni littoral, 1902-1919, (1320/1338) 5. The Armistice: the struggle for Asir and the Tihamah, 1919-1923, (1337-1342). 6. The British and Idrisi occupations of Hodeidah, 1918-1925 (1337-1344) 7. Family intrigues and Civil War, 1923-1927, (1341-1346) 8. Britain's bid to accommodate Imam Yahya and decline in Anglo-Idrisi goodwill, 1923-1927, (1341-1346) 9. Imam versus Idrisi and Ibn Saud's intervention, 1923-1927, (1341-1346) 10. Foreign pene-tration in South-West Arabia and the failure of British policy 1919-1934, (1337-1353) 11. Mineral concessions in Asir, 1910-1930, (1328-1349) 12. Preparations for the dismemberment of Asir, 1926-1933, (1344-1352) 13. Comeback and elimination of the Idrisi, 1933-1936, (1352-1355) 14. Conclusion, 1936-1973, (1355-1393).
2009DADAX1120522048Kessinger Publishing 2009-11-06. paperback. New. 6.00x1.60x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Kessinger Publishing paperback
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1992048764Riyadh Saudi Arabia: Ministry of Agriculture and Water Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 1992. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good . Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 312pp. colour photographs maps and charts. Errata slip laid in. Dark green boards w gold lettering to cover and spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Full-wrap photo illustrated DJ is clean showing tear to top back corner neatly closed. DJ preserved in mylar cover. Folio: 327 x 242mm. Bilingual text: Arabic and English. Book reads from right to left. 2.16kg before packaging. <br/> <br/> Ministry of Agriculture and Water, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia hardcover
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6 vol. in-4 br., couv. ill. couleurs, PIASA Paris, Drouot-Richelieu, 2002 à 2007, env. 60 à 80 pp. et de 250 à 330 réf. par catalogue. Rappel de la liste des catalogues : Orientalisme, art d'orient (28 novembre 2002) ; Archéologie, orientalisme, arts d'orient, Océanie, Haute époque (13 juin 2003) ; Archéologie, orientalisme, arts d'orient, Océanie, Haute époque (7 juin 2004) ; Art islamique, Antiques, Icônes, Haute époque (22 avril 2005) ; Archéologie, arts d'orient, Haute époque (2 juin 2006) ; Archéologie, Art d'Orient (13 juin 2007) Très bon état pour ce lot de beaux catalogues. Prix pour l'ensemble Français
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece and numerous photographs by the author; blue pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in silver, blue/silver endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
1987DADAX0803930682Sage Publications 1987-08-28. paperback. New. 5.50x0.22x8.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Sage Publications paperback
