German journalist's monograph on the Middle East

Boveri, Margret. Minaret and Pipe-Line. Yesterday and To-Day in the Near East.

Name: Minaret and Pipe-Line. Yesterday and To-Day in the Near East. - Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg.
SKU: bn61491
Price: 800.00 EUR
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London, Oxford University Press, 1939.

8vo. XVI, 422 pp. With a folding chart and a folding map at rear. Original limp orange cloth in yellow dust jacket printed in blue and white.

€ 800,00

Only English edition. The wide-ranging and important work on the Middle East by one of the most famous German journalists of the post-war era, Margret Boveri (1900-75), with an entire chapter dedicated to the Arabian world, including the Arabian Peninsula, supplemented with a map of Arabia and the Gulf. Translated into English from the original German by Louisa Marie Sieveking, Boveri's work discusses a brief history of West Asia, the effects of World War I and interwar European imperialism on the region, and the new states emerging after WWII.

With an ownership inscription by W. W. Steward, dated Baghdad, May 1955, to front free endpaper. Some wear to jacket, otherwise in good condition.

Literatur

OCLC 2026997. Not in Macro.

Art.-Nr.: BN#61491 Schlagwörter: Arabische Halbinsel, Arabischer Golf, Geographie und Reise, Geschichte, Islamic World

Boveri, Margret. Minaret and Pipe-Line. Yesterday and To-Day in the Near East.

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