In and Around Baghdad.

MAIN, Ernest:

Verlag: Baghdad: The Times Press Ltd First edition, 1930

Beschreibung

8vo., [xv]pp. of advertisements for businesses relevant to tourists such as hotels, cinemas, photographers, transport and luggage suppliers, 86pp., original orange cloth with rounded spine, titles to upper cover in black. A VG bright, clean tightly bound copy with a few minor marks of this scarce travel guide to inter-war Baghdad, which provides a surprisingly expansive scope of tourist literature for the period. This scarce guide has been traced at only six institutions worldwide (British Library, two copies; SOAS; University of California, two copies; Princeton; University of Pennsylvania; and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art). Ernest Main was a British journalist based between Baghdad and Basra in the 1930s. He was the editor of The Times of Mesopotamia and The Baghdad Times, and the correspondent of the Daily Mail in Iraq. Alongside this work he wrote several accounts on the history and contemporary politics of Iraq. The guide some interesting subjects such as The Desert Road; The Shopping Streets : Old and New; The Bazaars; Races and Racing Ponies; Down the River; The Iraq Museum (complete with a list of licensed antique dealers in the area); The Royal Hospital; The Government's Guests; The Dancing Girls; Irrigation Problem; Making a Policeman; Criminal Investigation; The Excavations at Tel-Asmar (covering the archaeological excavations of ancient Eshunna, carried out by the Chicago Oriental Institute). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 3890

Bibliografische Details

Titel: In and Around Baghdad.

Verlag: Baghdad: The Times Press Ltd First edition

Erscheinungsdatum: 1930

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition