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Sheet 100x70cm folding down to title panel 17x26cm. The front features two colour maps by A.M. Rashdan with a stylised cityscape of ancient, Islamic, and modern monuments illustrated by Harraz across the top. The back has 8 highly detailed Trans-Arabian Highways Routes. Fair only. Tanned, neatly folded, worn to folds with loss at some intersections, chipping to title panel corners (affecting text to verso), translucent archival tape repairs to folds and edges at the back, and along the title panel fold. Undated, but this develops and expands on Rashdan's similarly titled and scaled Arabic language map for the Arab Federation of Touring Car Clubs and Associations (Cairo Drawing Office, 1964), and pre-1971 with Egypt referred as UAR and the Trucial Sheikhdoms as Trucial Oman. Designed to show interconnectedness within the Arab World, it was possibly a product of the Arab League's First Conference of Arab Tourism Ministers (Cairo, Feb 1968), which charged the Arab Tourist Union with implementing a unified tourism policy, and saw the publication of its "A Tourist Guide to the Arab World" in the same year (ATU 1968). The main map displays the Arab World from Algeria to Muscat and Oman and Syria to Sudan including the whole of the Arabian Peninsula on a scale of 1/7.5M. Features include state and provincial boundaries, settlements, rivers and wadis, possible flood areas, and roads of various qualities (surfaced, improved, earth, marked tracks, unmarked tracks). An inset "Diagrammatic Map of the Arab World" with the same coverage highlights international and branch routes and railways, with the routes numbered in line with the texts on the back. The Route texts present several options and variations with stopping points, landmarks, cautions, detours, petrol stations, rest houses etc for 1: Alexandria - Casablanca / 2: Alex - Cairo - Aswan - Luxor / 3: Wadi Halfa - Khartoum - Malakal - Sudan / Uganda border, Cairo - Suez - Atbara - Khartoum - Kassala - Port Sudan - Atbara - El Obeid - Kosti / 4. Khartoum - Adre - El Obeid - El Fasher / 5. Algiers - Laghouat - El Golea - In Salah - Arak - In Guezzam / 6. Oran - Bechar - Reggan - Moktar - Timimoun Corner / 7. Beirut - Damascus - Mafraq, Turkey frontier - Aleppo, Hama - Homs - Damascus - Deraa, Lebanon frontier - Damascus - Al Tanf, Aleppo - Idlib - Lattakia - Lebanon, Mafraq - Ramadi - Baghdad, Baghdad - Kuwait, Jerusalem - Amman - Aqaba / 8. Amman - Tabuk - Medina - Jeddah - Mecca - Al Taif - Riyadh - Dhahran - Kuwait. Codice articolo 5676
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