mcpherson bimbash (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy with clean and unmarked contents and in a well preserved pictorial dust jacket that is now preserved in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve.Illustrated, 313pp.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Joseph McPherson -- Bimbash -- a classical scholar with an Oxford degree in Natural Sciences, a linguist, athlete and determined individualist, arrived in Egypt in 1901, fell in love with the country and stayed there until his death in 1946. During that time he wrote thousands of letters home and here is a selection of them. He was a born storyteller and his letters give a history of their times. He started as a teacher in cairo and used his long holidays boldly travelling all over the Middle East and Asia Minor . The First World War finds him in Gallipoli, clinically observing and brilliantly describing the doomed campaign and then later he is in the Sinai desert at the battles of Romani and Gaza, encouraging his Egyptian cameleers to charge shouting the McPherson clan war-cry. The later he became "Mamur Zapt" the head of the secret Police in cairo, hot on the trail of drug-dealers, exotic Madames and burgeoning revolutionaries. HB. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. 313 pages with b&w photo illus. DJ unclipped; has the odd scratch and very slight wear around edges and corners. . Book tight and clean.