Editore: J.B. Lippincott,, Philadelphia:, 1928
Da: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
8vo. 322 pp. Photo frntsp, 1 colour map, colour-map illust. endpapers. Orange cloth, red lettering (minor shelfwear, rubbing), still VG copy. First edition of this informative travelogue among the Shiite Arabs living in the marshes of Southern Iraq. This work provides an excellent description of a culture largely wiped out later by Saddam Hussein. Gertrude Bell was to have written the introduction, but according to the preface died before publication.