Beschreibung:

8vo. 255, (1) pp. With 13 photo illustrations and a map. Original red publisher's cloth with giltstamped spine title. Original dust jacket.

Bemerkung:

First printing of the first edition. A documentary of a year spent by the author in the Arabian Gulf, discussing Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Buraimi Oasis, Qatar, Kuwait; hunting and falconry. Dedicated "to the honour and glory of His Excellency Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Albufalah, Ruler of Abu Dhabi". - Removed from W. H. Smith & Son's Lending Library (London) with bookplate to front pastedown. Now rare. - OCLC 1239299. Not in Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula.