tor et al eigeland (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. (travel, outdoors, US history) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. S.M. Amin; Tor Eigeland; Nicholas Kourides; et al (illustrator). Original colour illustrated wraps 22x28cm. Printed in Beirut by the Middle East Export Press. 36pp with colour and b/w photos and drawings. Covers very good, marked, interiors near fine. The cover story is about diving for seashells in the Red Sea off Jeddah and elsewhere. Other content includes the overland journeys made by Aramco's riggers and transport specialists and challenges encountered; the origins and development of Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) with a profile of one of its pilots Nahar Nassar, and description of its services; Nicholas Kourides' photo essay of people in the mountains of Lebanon; a profile of Travels in Arabia Deserta author Charles Doughty; and the 10th installment from Wallace Stegner's "Discovery! The Story of Aramco Then" with illustrations by Donald Thompson. Photographers include Aramco's own S.M. Amin and Tor Eigeland.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Tor Eigeland; et al (illustrator). Original colour illustrated wraps 22x28cm. Printed in Beirut by the Middle East Export Press. 40pp with colour and b/w photos and drawings. Near fine. The cover story presents Daniel da Cruz and Tor Eigeland's beautifully illustrated first-hand account accompanying a convoy to the site of a planned Aramco exploratory well "in a remote corner of the Empty Quarter". Other content includes Kathe Tanous (Mrs Mooslie)'s sketches of the Middle East; life in a Palestinian refugee camp seen through the eyes of Ibrahim Ali Badran, a farmer who fled Tel Aviv in 1948; the rescue and reconstruction of an Egyptian temple at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and the 9th installment from Wallace Stegner's "Discovery! The Story of Aramco Then" with illustrations by Donald Thompson. Photographers include Aramco's own Tor Eigeland.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Tor Eigeland; Khalil Abou El-Nasr; et al (illustrator). Original colour illustrated wraps 22x28cm. Printed in Beirut by the Middle East Export Press. 36pp with colour and b/w photos and drawings. Near fine. This special "Quest for Knowledge" issue is entirely dedicated to education and training in the Arab world. Articles include a history and description of Al Azhar University in Cairo; the American University of Beirut; 15 years of progress in developing education in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia; technical training in support of industrialisation; special needs; Aramco's contributions to education in Saudi Arabia; the University of Jordan; and the new breed of Arab colleges and universities, 18 out of 27 of which founded since 1946. The latter includes a detailed table of principal four-year colleges and universities across the Arab world with data on faculty, student enrollment, budget, languages, etc, distinguishing national from private or foreign institutions. Photographers include Aramco's own Tor Eigeland and Khalil Abou El-Nasr.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. V.K. Antony; et al (illustrator). Original b/w illustrated wraps with portrait of Ibn Saud 22x28cm. Printed in Beirut by the Middle East Export Press. 32pp with several b/w photos and drawings. Covers very good with some foxing and marks, interiors near fine. The cover story presents an account of Ibn Saud's taking of Riyadh, by war correspondent David Howarth with charcoal drawings by Sydney King. Other articles cover Aramco's Industrial Training Center for Saudi students ("In the classrooms of the ITCs, Aramco workers find a path to progress"); archaeology in South Arabia; spelunking (cave exploration) in Lebanon; and monuments on the Nile. Photographers include Aramco's own V.K. Antony.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Tor Eigeland; S.M. Amin; et al (illustrator). Original colour illustrated wraps 22x28cm. Printed in Beirut by the Middle East Export Press. 36pp with colour and b/w photos and drawings. Near fine. The cover story is a biography and fulsome tribute to one of Aramco's eminent generation of early explorer-geologists Thomas Barger, who had arrived in Bahrain in 1937 (received by Max Steineke), and just stepped down as its Chair and CEO on 1 September ("Myth or Man?"). This features numerous Donald Thompson paintings of Barger in the field, and later as a senior executive. Other content includes Tor Eigeland's photos of a Bedouin boy on a camel deep in the Empty Quarter (taken during his trip with Daniel da Cruz which featured in the May-June 1969 issue); Qatif Junction (QA-5, the link up point for many of Aramco's pipelines); a celebration of 1000 years of Cairo and 100 years of the Suez Canal; and the 11th installment from Wallace Stegner's "Discovery! The Story of Aramco Then" with illustrations by Donald Thompson. Photographers include Aramco's own Tor Eigeland and S.M. Amin.