ARABIAN ADVENTURES, Ten Years of Joyful Service
by John Glubb ( Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb, KCB, CMG, DSO, OBE, MC)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, and barcode. GOOD book in GOOD uncli
- Seller
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McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Cassell & Co., London 1978 Hardcover with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, and barcode. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket This is a fascinating document in the history of the Middle East, illuminating the benevolent ideas and political blunders of British policy between the two World Wars. Above all it is a loving tribute to the vanishing way of life of the desert Arab, his courage, his endurance, his generosity and his chivalry; and a tribute also to the countless Britons who in the days of Empire gave up home and family to work for the peoples who they were called upon to serve,
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- Seller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage (AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 44435
- Title
- ARABIAN ADVENTURES, Ten Years of Joyful Service
- Author
- John Glubb ( Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb, KCB, CMG, DSO, OBE, MC)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, and barcode. GOOD book in GOOD uncli
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell & Co., London
- Date Published
- 1978
- Pages
- 224 pages
- Keywords
- Iraq Euphrates River desert Arabs Middle East policy British Empire Desert Police Wahhabis marsh Arabs Bedouin nomads
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McCrae, Victoria
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