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A Paladin of Arabia. The Biography of Brevet Lieut.-Colonel G. E. Leachman, of the Royal Sussex Regiment. With a Foreword by The Right Honourable Sir Samuel Hoare.
Verlag: London: John Heritage, The Unicorn Press Ltd, 1936, 1936
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: ABA ILAB PBFA
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First edition of this important biography of the pioneering Arabian explorer and rival to T. E. Lawrence. Leachman (1880-1920) learned Arabic while working in military intelligence at Simla, and arrived in southern Iraq in 1909 to begin his career in the field, "one of a cohort of colourful contemporaries including Douglas Carruthers, T. E. Lawrence, Alois Musil, S. F. Newcombe, Conrad Preusser, Barclay Raunkiaer, William Shakespear, E. B. Soane, and Wilhelm Wassmuss" (ODNB). In 1910 Percy Cox, Persian Gulf resident, despatched him on an unofficial mission to persuade the Rashids of Ha'il not to attack Ibn Sa'ud, whose rear base in Kuwait (where the Al Sa'ud had taken refuge after the Rashidi capture of Riyadh) was protected by the British. Later the same year he attempted to travel into central Arabia, but was expelled by Mubarak al-Sabah, sheikh of Kuwait. In 1912 he set out on a second expedition, this time from Damascus, and during which he reached as far as Riyadh, where he met 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Sa'ud: this was probably the farthest any British traveller had reached in Arabia since Lady Anne Blunt. In March 1915 he was posted to Basra to work among the Arab tribes of southern Iraq, and in an act of extraordinary heroism entered the besieged city of Kut and freed some 5,000 troops. Unsympathetic towards the Arab Revolt and Arab independence generally, he was killed in an ambush during the Iraqi Revolt of 1920. This record of his life, richly embellished with extracts from his own letters, is distinctly uncommon, decidedly so in the jacket. O'Brien F0138. Octavo. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, publisher's logo gilt on the front board. With dust jacket. Photogravure portrait frontispiece and 15 other similar plates, 3 folding maps, one of them large and coloured. Lightly rubbed, small tear to foot of spine, scattered foxing; jacket with a few chips to extremities, minor damp staining around head of spine, unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket.
