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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book deals with the ancient and modern tribes and peoples of the countries around the Persian Gulf generally and Oman in particular. It records many environmental factors of the Persian Gulf, such as religious influence, social conditions, commerce, geography, agriculture, and fishing. …

4to. 2 vols. (12), 264 pp. (4), 265-643 pp., final blank. With frontispiece portrait and 8 photographic plates. Contemporary stamped cloth with cover and spine titles. Second printing of the equally scarce 1919 first edition of this notable work of travel literature by the British Army officer S. B. Miles, who served as a diplomat in various Arabic-speaking countries, notably Oman, which he came to know better than any other European of the time. His intent to revise the notes he had "jotted down on odd bits of paper as he rode through the desert on his camel" (Preface) was rendered impossible due to his failing eyesight. Five years after his death his widow decided to publish the manuscript as she found it, enriching it with Miles's travelogue of Mesopotamia as well as an index. The work includes the political and economic history of Oman and the Gulf as well as the history and geography of Dhofar, Arab tribes, and pearl fishing. The plates show the forts at Bahila, Yabreen, and Rostak, as well as the house of Seyyid Hamed Bin Azzar at Rostak, a group of locals, and date palms, while the frontispiece depicts Miles resting in a chair wearing his sunglasses. - Binding slightly rubbed and soiled, cockling to upper cover of vol. 2, rebacked. A good copy of this popular work that saw re-issues in 1966 and 1994. - Cf. Ghani 250 (1966 reprint only). …

Zustand: Good+. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Harrison and Sons, London, UK. 1920. 264 pgs. Second Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplate (W Nathaniel Howell former US ambassador to Kuwait). Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In a long career in the Indian army and political service, colonel Samuel Barrett Miles built up an unrivalled knowledge of the countries and peoples of the Persian Gulf. Travelling overland on camels and by sea in dhows, often one of the first foreigners to visit the gulf's remote places, he observed and recorded social conditions, architecture, agriculture, fishing, commerce including the fabled pearl fisheries, tribal traditions, local customs and dynastic histories, providing material for this authoritative work. To his ethnographic observation based on direct experience, miles added a knowledge of classics and history that enabled him to show that many current practices, such as methods of measurement, had their roots in the ancient past. He was also able to demonstrate that the gulf had played an important role in commerce a thousand years before. Above all, he helped to establish the study of the early history of Eastern Arabia, which until then had been veiled in obscurity, also providing detailed accounts of successive waves of colonisation, and current political events in the area. This work is arranged two volumes. The chapters in Volume One are concerned with the history of early colonisation. The Persian Gulf under Islam; the Portuguese in eastern Arabia and the Yaareba dynasty. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…