1938_ARABIA FELIX Dhufar OMAN Muscat QATAR Doha EMPTY QUARTER Rub Al'Khali NEJD

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Title WE POST WORLDWIDE Please enquire for postage to your country Ctesiphon Books ARABIA FELIX Across the Empty Quarter of Arabia By: Bertram THOMAS O.B.E. [MIL.]; formerly Wazir to H.H. the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, sometimes Political Officer in Iraq, and Assistant British Representative in Trans-Jordan. Founder’s Medallist of the Royal Geographical Society, Burton Memorial Medallist of the Royal Asiatic Society; Gold Medallist of the Royal Geographical Society of Antwerp; and Cullum Gold Medal of the American Geographical Society. With a Forward by: T. E. LAWRENCE (T.E.S.) LONDON: 1938 Publisher/Year: LONDON, Readers’ Union Ltd. /Jonathan Cape, 1938. Binding: Hardcover, 22x15cm. Pages: 304 Illustrations: 13 Illustrations, 2 Maps. жжж Please see book CONDITION at end жжж Bertram Sidney Thomas (1892-1950) Bertram Thomas was born in Easton-in-Gordano, near Bristol, 13 June 1892. He was educated privately and was a fellow commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge, PhD. He worked in the Civil Service, 1908-14. He served with the North Somerset Yeomanry in Belgium, 1914-15, and the Somerset Light Infantry in Mesopotamia (Iraq), 1916-18. He was an Assistant Political Officer in Mesopotamia, 1918-22, and Assistant British Representative in Trans-Jordan (Jordan), 1922-4. He was appointed as Finance Minister and Wazir to the Sultan of Muscat and Oman (Oman), 1925-32. During this time he made a number of expeditions into the desert, becoming the first European to cross the Rub’ Al Khali (Empty Quarter), 1930-1. He married Bessie Hoile, 1933. He was Information Officer in Bahrain, 1942-3; Director of the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies, Palestine, 1943-6, and Lebanon, 1947-8; and an adviser to Shell Group, 1948-9. He was awarded the OBE, 1920, and CMG, 1949. He died in Cairo, 27 December 1950. ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈ THE GREAT JOURNEY ACROSS the Empty Quarter of SAUDI ARABIA, OMAN & QATAR With Many Photograph Illustrations From T. E. Lawrence Forward … ” Few men are able to close an epoch. We cannot know the first man who walked the inviolate earth for newness’ sake: but Thomas is the last; and he did his journey in the antique way, by pain of his camel’s legs, single-handed, at his own time and cost. He might have flown an aeroplane, sat in a car or rolled over in a tank. Instead he has snatched, at the twenty-third hour, feet’s last victory and set us free. ..” From Introduction … ” ARABIA FELIX! Strange that the epithet ‘Happy’ should grace a part of the earth’s surface, most of it barren wilderness where, since the dawn of history, man has ever been at war with his environment and his neighbour. Yet there can be no mistaking the classical geographers. To Strabo, Pliny, and Ptolemy, the term Arabia Felix served for the entire peninsula south of Syria desert (Arabia Deserta) and the Mountains about Sinai (Arabia Petraea). Yet Arabia has remained the forbidden land. Throughout the centuries scarce twenty European explorers have been able usefully to penetrate to her inhospitality heart. For this there are two main reasons. First, lack of rain and the merciless heat of the Arabian desert, secondly the religion of these desert men, at least in practice, is fanatical and exclusive… As a Minister of the Council of the State of Oman, my name came to be known throughout south-east Arabia; it was because I was the Sultan’s Wazir and because of the cordial relations existing between the Ruler and myself that I was brought into personal touch with the most influential Arabs of that part. . ..” Contents … Forward Preface Introduction A Propitious Start and an Early Check At Dhufar: Anarchy, Treachery and Hospitality Skull-Measuring and Devil-Dancing In the Qara Mountains: ‘Ain ar Rizat In the Qara Mountains. Ancient Survivals and the Blood Sacrifice The Qara Mountains. Hyenas, Faith Cures and Circumcision The Qara Mountains. Exorcising the Evil Eye and Ordeal by Fire The Qara Mountains. Farewell Dhufar. The Eleventh Hour Over the Hills and Far Away Nejd. Life in the Southern Steppe Along the Southern Fringe of the Sands Across the Montains Sands of Uruq-Adh-Dhahiya A Geographical Note on Rub’Al Khali Through the Sands of Dakaka. The Second Realy of Camels At the Water-Hole of Shanna. The Halt before the Northward Dash The Northward Dash Through the Central Sands A Retrospect Banaiyan to the Sea. The Last Stage List of Topographical Terms Index Illustrations … Sands of Arabia Felix Below Khiyunt- Typical Meadows Exorcism of Evil Eye The Spring of Khiyunt Looking Down into Wadi Arbot from Fuzah Trilith Inscriptions A Fringe of the Southern Sands Halt to Graze in the Hungry Southern Borderlands The Ridges of the Dunes Halt for Prayer In Cold and Hungry Ubaila A Qatar Group. The Shaikh: my Host, Shaikh Mohammad bin ‘Abdul Latif Al Mana’ and Salith My Party Maps … The Rub’ al Khali. (55cmx42cm). Sketch map of the Qara Mountains Condition … Darkened & soiled cover, foxing to prelim pages, browned end-papers and fore edges, otherwise book in good condition. Payment: Accept payment by: PayPal at NO extra cost. Cheque in Pound Sterling no extra charge. Shipment: Buyer pays postage and packaging at cost. Please inquire for details. All our shipments will have Post Office Certificates of Posting at NO extra cost. [It is only a proof of shipment]. Insurance is £4.50 extra on top of Postage and Package cost. Essential for Middle East, Eastern Europe & some other countries, please acquire before bidding. ©1999-2024 by Ctesiphon

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