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Arabia And The Isles

Arabia And The Isles


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Originally published in 1937. ARABIA AND THE ISLES by HAROLD INGRAMS. Contents include: PART I PAGE Foreword by Sir Bernard Reilly, K.C.M.G., C.IE, O.B.E . ixAuthors Foreword......... xiPrelude........ xvChapterL The Erythraean Sea....... 3II. A Pooh Bah in Pemba....... 12III. The Green Island Men of Oman . . . ., .26IV. MenofShihr........ 40V. Antres VastIn Zanzibar TownA Dhow from KuweitLatham Island ....... 47VL Mauritian Interlude and Oriental Encounters ... 63VII. Aden Town........ 84Kill. The Aden Protectorate....... 91IX. Lahej, Museimir and the Qat Trade, . . . 103X. Troubled Waters....... 113 PART HXT. The Far Off Hills of Hadhramaut and the Lands of Genesisl 137XII. The Gateway of the Hadhramaut . . . . . 147XIII. Travel in the Hadhramaut . . . . . . 154XI7. WadisandJolstoDuan...... 164XV. In the Valley of Du an...... 169XVI. A Peacemaking Patriarch...... 177XVII. Into the Wadi Hadhramaut...... 184XFHI, The Tomb ofSalih and the Sefar Country . . ..193 XIX. Seiyun and Tarim........ 203 XX. The Tomb of Hud in the Valley of the Floods . . .210 XXI. A River of the Rivers of ParadiseThe Mahra Country . 217XXII. Last Days in Shihr and Mukalla..... 235PART IIIXXLTI. Return to the Hadhramaut and the First Move . . .243XXTK Over the Hills to Tarim...... 251XXV. Tribal Warfare and Seiyid Bubakr..... 258XXFI Visits to the Tribes and the First Peace Conference in Seiyun, 265XXFZT. An Incident and the Trial of the Bin Yemani Tribe . . 275XXVIIL Royal Air Force Action and the Submission of the Bin Yemani 285XXIX. The Signing of the Truce ..., 298XXX. The New Road........ 312XXXI. Trouble With the Sefar and Other Tribes . .,318XXXZI The Social Round....... 33IXXXIII. Present and Future....... 338XXXIV. The Future of the Hadhramaut..... 34I Index, VI ILLUSTRATIONS From Photographs by the Author, except Said and his pipe............Mukalla from the air ..........The Bazaar, Mukalla ..........Camel park, Mukalla ..........The Guest House, Mukalla ........Notables at Mukalla, including Sultan Salih and AivadhMukalla from the Customs..........Gateway in the Hadhramaut ........Date palms in Wadi Duan..........Wadi Duan. Women carrying firewood......Ba Surra family at Masna a..........Farewell group at Masna a..........The Mansab ofMeshhed. Said Ahmed and drummer boyMeshhed..............Shibam ..............Shibam ..............vShibam from the air..........At Umars house, Tarim..........Group at Mdat............SeiyidUmars house ........Tarim from the air............Wadi Hadhramaut fiom the air........viiFrontispiecebetween pages152 and 153between pages176 and 177between pages192 and 193ILLUSTRATIONSQabr Salih, Mosque .......Seiyunfrom the air. Kathiri Sultans PalaceSeiyun ...........Einat. Mosque.........Seiyun. Mosque .....Qabr Hud...........Group at Qabr Hud.........Drawing water ........Cave chvellings at SenaShihr ...........


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  • ISBN-13: 9781443723404
  • Publisher: Hesperides Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Hesperides Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 412
  • Spine Width: 27 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1443723401
  • Publisher Date: 04 Nov 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 720 gr


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