GOODRICH-FREER, Ada.

Arabs in Tent & Town.

Name: Arabs in Tent & Town.
Brand: GOODRICH-FREER, Ada.
SKU: 120927
Price: 350.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

An intimate account of the family life of the Arabs of Syria, their manner of living in desert & town, their hospitality, customs, & mental attitude, with a description of the animals, birds, flowers, & plants of their country.

Stock Code 120927

London, Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1924.

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A fine copy in the scarce dust-jacket of this work on Syrian ways of life by a woman traveller.

Ada Goodrich-Freer (1857-1931 moved to Jerusalem in 1901 after being exposed as a fake psychic and lived in the region with her husband Dr Hans Henry Spoer for twenty years. She travelled across eastern Arabia and Syria publishing several works on her travels. In this particular work she focusses on the cultural aspects of the people she encountered including whole chapters on children, bread and coffee, the Harem, property laws, camels, locusts, and several on the plants of the area.

First edition; 8vo (22 x 15 cm); 27 photographic illustrations on 16 plates including frontispiece, fore-edge a touch spotted; publisher's pictorial cloth, spine lettered in black, top edge red, original dust-jacket, a couple of tears to spine, a couple of chips to head and foot, a fine copy in a good example of the scarce dust-jacket; 325, [2] pp.

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