Greenfield, Jonas C. und Moshe Weinfeld (Ed.)Antiquariat.de
Diary of a Journey through the Sinai Peninsula and Arabia in 1914
1916315694London: privately printed 1916. Only edition. With 15 captioned plates after the author's photographs large folding map at back two original photographs tipped to the pastedowns. 78 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red buckram titled in gilt on upper cover. Some soiling to cloth long closed tear to map light foxing. Very good plus. Only edition. With 15 captioned plates after the author's photographs large folding map at back two original photographs tipped to the pastedowns. 78 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. WITH 2 ORIGINAL PHOTOS. A trip to Sinai Palestine and Transjordan starting from Charing Cross in March 1914. From Port Said Egypt the party travelled to Suez and then overland along the west coast of the Sinai Peninsula to Mount Sinai and the monastery St. Katherine. From there to Aqaba Ain Kadis in the Wilderness of Zin the Wadi el Arabah to Mount Hor and Petra Kerak before reaching Bethlehem and Jerusalem. The author and his friend Hensman spent 5 weeks of travel crossing 400 miles on camel and 700 miles on horseback. <br/>A remarkable trip through some of the same terrain covered in January and February 1914 by T.E. Lawrence and C.E. Woolley and the military surveying team under the guise of an archaeological survey.<br/>Uncommon. privately printed unknown books
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