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The Arab of The Desert. A Glimpse Into Badawin Life in Kuwait and Sau'di Arabia

Name: The Arab of The Desert. A Glimpse Into Badawin Life in Kuwait and Sau'di Arabia
Author: Dickson H R P

Book Description

Published by George Allen & Unwin, London, 1949. 648pp. 8vo (170 x 236 mm). 664 pp. With frontispiece portrait of HH Sheikh Sir Ahmad al Jabir al Sabah, contemporary Ruler of Kuwait, and numerous plates and text illustrations. Elegantly bound in full black calf gilt. Internally fine. Maps etc in sleeve at rear of book.

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Lieutenant Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson (1881-1959), British colonial administrator in the Middle East from the 1920s until the 1940s. Dickson the son of the British consul in Syria, had unrivalled access to the desert tribes as a result of being wet-nursed by a Badawi woman. The work is a comprehensive detailed account of Arab customs etc

Author Dickson H R P

Date 1949

Binding Leather

Publisher George Allen & Unwin,

Condition Near Fine

Pages 648

Price: £450.00

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