{"product_id":"buckingham-arab-tribes-1825-freya-stark-123575","title":"Travels Among the Arab Tribes Inhabiting the countries east of Syria and Palestine,","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003eFreya Stark's copy\u003c\/h4\u003eBuckingham travelled overland from Egypt to India in 1816 and 1817 via Palestine, Syria, and Mesopotamia. This work describes the portion of his journey from Nazareth to Aleppo and Damascus, and also contains an appendix refuting charges of plagiarism which were levelled against his earlier work on Palestine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFreya Stark's copy, with her bookplate which includes her husband's name and the name of the Italian town where she spent much of her childhood: Asolo. She was one of the most well-known female travellers associated with the Middle East and one of the first westerners to cross the Southern Arabian desert. She had married Stewart Perowne, a British diplomat, Arabist, and historian in 1947 and sometimes used his name despite the marriage failing in 1952.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition; 4to (28 x 23 cm); bookplate of Freya Stark to front pastedown, and inscription identifying the copy as hers to first blank, folding map (slightly browned), 28 vignettes, bookplate, some offsetting and browning to preliminary pages; rebacked contemporary half calf, marbled boards, hinges reinforced, a very good copy; xvi, 670 pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlackmer 232.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"BUCKINGHAM, James Silk.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57307077247351,"sku":"123575","price":3000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/123575_0_5308ed13-11d6-4b8d-8bf2-e0a04e503d56.jpg?v=1784221063","url":"https:\/\/shapero.com\/products\/buckingham-arab-tribes-1825-freya-stark-123575","provider":"Shapero Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}