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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.…

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.…