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Original-Broschur. 150 Seiten mit einigen s/w Abbildungen und Tafeln. Gutes Exemplar mit nur leichten Gebrauchsspuren. Textsauber und aus einem Nichtraucherhaushalt. // Original softcover. Clean book in good condition. Book from a non smoking environment. Dieses Exemplar stammt aus der Bibliothek von Walter W. Müller, Professor für Semitistik an der Philipps-Universität Marburg. Sprache: Englisch.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. Original green cloth in colour illustrated jacket depicting a local street scene with small RAF logo 15 x 23cm. 236pp illustrated in colour and b/w, including numerous locally relevant adverts. Covers very good with some damp staining. Interiors fine except for Japanese paper reinforcement to the guttering at the title page. The jacket is fair only with some loss. This was written, compiled and published by the Guides and Handbooks of Africa Publishing Company on behalf of the RAF (credited to the back flap). It includes an opening message from Air Marshal Sir Charles Elworthy, who was Commander-in-Chief of Middle East Command (Aden), a newly formed unified command that succeeded the British Forces Arabian Peninsula on March 1961. (Elworthy had been appointed C-in-C of British Forces Arabian Peninsula in August 1960). This guide was therefore issued on the occasion of the reorganisation of British forces in Aden. Although it was directed primarily at service personnel and their families, it acknowledges shared interest for transit passengers and businessmen. Chapters cover background information, living in Aden, shopping, off duty, sightseeing, Middle East Command, Naval and Ground Forces, Services' welfare, Leave in Kenya, Eastleigh for adventure (this refers to the RAF station near Nairobi, "a springboard for some of the roughest, toughest and most adventurous activities in the RAF" including mountaineering, rock climbing, canoeing, sailing, and safari arranged under the RAF's Expedition Training Scheme), Middle East memories (by Air Commodore EL Howard-Williams), Little Aden, Muslim beliefs and Adeni customs (by Farouk Luqman), History of Aden (by Anne Webster), Postage stamps of Aden Colony. Farouk Luqman (1935-2019) was born in Aden, the son of Mohammed Luqman, who owned Fatat Al-Jazeerah, one of the first Arabic newspapers in the Arabian Peninsula. He became a prominent journalist in Saudi Arabia, and Editor-in-Chief of Arab News.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Original illustrated wraps 14x22cm. Printed in India by photo offset by HK Nasta, IBH Printers, Bombay. (9), 240pp + (4)pp between pp136-137, including b/w photos and many local adverts + 2 unindexed folding maps inside the lower wrap. Covers good with hard vertical crease and previous owner's signature to the front. Interiors generally very good with some marks, and browning glue marks coming through to the map panel affixed inside the lower wrap. Rare, with 11 locations on Worldcat and Library Hub between them (OCLC 11659142, 257451187). Undated, c1971 with data presented up to 1970 and events forecast for 1972. Farouk Luqman (b. Aden 1935, d. Jeddah 2019) studied politics and history at St Xavier's in Bombay, then journalism at Columbia. He edited and published the English language weekly "Aden Chronicle" and his father's Arabic language weekly "Fatat Jezirah" until 1967, then became correspondent for UPI, the New York Times, and Newsweek. By this time, he had also written books on the Yemen Revolution, Yemen (1970), and Djibouti Today. He went on to become Editor-in-Chief of Arab News. This work is apparently self-published, although he uses the Aden Chronicle address in his Foreword. He wrote it at an especially challenging time, noting that the new country had been plunged into "a staggering deficit" upon independence in 1967. This had been caused by an end to the overseas aid and local spending that had come with British withdrawal, and drastic reduction in bunker fuel and tourism receipts due to the closure of the Suez Canal in 1967. He wrote this "comprehensive guide book" or "fact book" in response, to alert foreign readers, visitors, tourists, businesspeople and potential investors about the country and the efforts of "her gallant and hospitable people as written by one of them" (back cover / Preface). His chapters cover tourism, economy, agriculture and fisheries, Aden port, history, geography, geology, archaeology, animal life, etc. Photos show tourist attractions, monuments, agricultural, industrial, cultural and other pursuits. The maps show Aden and its environs, and PDRY.…