From FOLIOS LIMITED, Oxford, United Kingdom
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xi, 286 pp., 38 b/w plates including a frontispiece, 1 large folding map of Arabia based on the author?s own survey, yellow cloth soiled, copy in very good condition otherwise, appendix, index. This covers Philby's first Midian journey in 1950. He wanted to prove his worth as a historian of Pre-Islamic Arabia, an area known to be full of traces of ancient sites. For decades, the British researcher and diplomat Harry St. John Bridger Philby (1885-1960) was an advisor and friend of the Saudi King 'Abdul'Aziz ibn Sa'ud. This is an account of his three thousand mile journey from Riyadh through Madina, Khaibar, Taima and Tabuk, Tabuk Oasis, then to Sharaura and Quraiya, the Hisma Plateau, the Midian Valley, the seaboard of Midian and the Hijaz railway. #4826. Seller Inventory # 002664
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Land of Midian.
Publisher: Ernest Benn Ltd, London
Publication Date: 1957
Binding: Cloth
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
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