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Cheesman, Major R. E IN UNKNOWN ARABIA
London Macmillan & Co. 1926 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine
8vo; xx, 433 pages; Original green cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and gilt stamped figure of an Arab astride a camel on front cover. Top edges gilt. With 66 black and white illustrations, 2 plans and a large coloured folding map. Very small closed tear at lower corner of spine (1/8"), otherwise a very nice bright, clean, tight copy of this scarce Middle Eastern travel book. Cheesman, a British ornithologist and explorer, served as Private Secretary to Sir Percy Cox, then High Commissioner in Iraq. Cheesman, a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London undertook this expedition into unexplored tracts of Eastern Arabia in pursuit of zoological knowledge. In 1921, Cheesman mapped the Arabian coast from Uqair to the head of the Gulf of Salwa. In this account he gives intimate glimpses at Ibn Saud. Cheesman started his journey from Bahrain to Uqair, Salwa, Hufuf and Jabrin. Having fixed its position he then mapped 150 miles of desert, identified the site of the ancient Gerra, and corrected some serious mistakes about the wadi system. He also made archaeological discoveries on his two visits to the Salwa Bight, which showed the site of the Gerra emporium in the immediate vicinity of the port of Oqair and not at the head of Salwa Bay as was formerly supposed. The Royal Geographical Society gave him the Gill Memorial Award for this journey which he describes here.
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599.95 USD
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