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