RASWAN, Carl R.

Black Tents of Arabia.

Black Tents of Arabia.

Stock Code 121427

London, Hutchinson & Co., 1935.

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Raswan was one of a few who had managed to penetrate the unexplored desert of Northern Arabia and live with the warlike Bedouins, not as a foreigner, but as one marked by the rite of blood-brotherhood with their Sheikhs. Much on Arabian horses, falconry, and hunting.

First edition; 8vo (23.5 x 16.5 cm); with numerous photos, many of horses, greyhounds and falcons, discreet library stamp to front endpaper; publisher's original black cloth, white lettering to upper board and spines, spine a little rubbed, very good copy; 280 pp.

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