Arabia & The Isles

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ISBN: 9780710305671 | 0710305672
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Copyright: 1/8/1998

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Written in the 1930s, this book creates a vivid impression of life in the British Colonial Service, the backbone of the British Empire, in which the author served for many years.

Foreword

Sir Bernard Reilly, K.C.M.G., C.I.E., O.B.E.

Author's Foreword to First Edition

Author's Foreword to Second Edition

Author's Introduction to Third Edition 1966

Prelude

101

PART I

(128)

I. The Erythraean Sea

(9)

II. A Pooh Bah in Pemba

(14)

III. The Green Island: Men of Oman

(14)

IV. Men of Shihr

(7)

V. Antres Vast--In Zanzibar Town--A Dhow from Kuweit--Latham Island

(16)

VI. Mauritian Interlude and Oriental Encounters

(21)

VII. Aden Town

(7)

VIII. The Aden Protectorate

(9)

IX. Lahej, Museimir and the Qat Trade

100

(9)

X. Troubled Waters

109

(22)

PART II

131

(92)

XI. The Far Off Hills of Hadhramaut and the Lands of Genesis

131

(6)

XII. The Gateway of the Hadhramaut

137

(7)

XIII. Travel in the Hadhramaut

144

(10)

XIV. Wadis and Jols to Du'an

154

(5)

XV. In the Valley of Du'an

159

(8)

XVI. A Peace-making Patriarch

167

(7)

XVII. Into the Wadi Hadhramaut

174

(8)

XVIII. The Tomb of Salih and the Sei'ar Country

182

(7)

XIX. Seiyun and Tarim

189

(7)

XX. The Tomb of Hud in the Valley of the Floods

196

(6)

XXI. A River of the Rivers of Paradise--The Mahra Country

202

(15)

XXII. Last Days in Shihr and Mukalla

217

(6)

PART III

223

(98)

XXIII. Return to the Hadhramaut and the First Move

223

(8)

XXIV. Over the Hills to Tarim

231

(7)

XXV. Tribal Warfare and Seiyid Bubakr

238

(7)

XXVI. Visits to the Tribes and the First Peace Conference in Seiyun

245

(8)

XXVII. An Incident and the Trial of the Bin Yemani Tribe

253

(10)

XXVIII. Royal Air Force Action and the Submission of the Bin Yemani

263

(13)

XXIX. The Signing of the Truce

276

(16)

XXX. The New Road

292

(8)

XXXI. Trouble With the Sei'ar and Other Tribes

300

(12)

XXXII. The Social Round

312

(9)

PART IV

321

(63)

XXXIII. Retrospect

321

(6)

XXXIV. The Incense Road

327

(21)

XXXV. Progress of the Hadhramaut through War and Famine

348

(30)

XXXVI. Thoughts at a Journey's End

378

(6)

Postscript

384

(5)

Index

389

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Arabia & The Isles

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