Lady Anne Blunt; A Biography
by Winstone, H.F.V. (Biography of Anne Blunt; Letters of Anne Blunt.)
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- ISBN 10
- 1900988577
- ISBN 13
- 9781900988575
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About This Item
London: Barzan Publishing 1900988577 [1900988577] 2003. (Hardcover) 381pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers, black & white and color illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. There is a previous owner's name in ink on the front free endpaper. "Lady Anne Blunt, granddaughter of Byron, was the first Western woman to make a recorded journey to Central Arabia and the first to enter the citadel of Hail, home of the ruling house of Ibn Rashid. She rescued the pure strain of the Arab horse from near oblivion, set up the famous Crabbet stud in England, and translated the verse of some of the timeless pre-Islamic Arabian writers.... Winstone draws extensively from her unpublished diaries and letters, to produce a poignant and illuminating portrait of a talented, determined and visionary woman". Biography of Anne Blunt. Letters of Anne Blunt. Time Period 19th Century. Locale: ; Algeria; Arabia; Egypt; Syria. (Biography, Horse Breeding, Travel, Women Writers).
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- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 149077
- Title
- Lady Anne Blunt; A Biography
- Author
- Winstone, H.F.V. (Biography of Anne Blunt; Letters of Anne Blunt.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1900988577
- ISBN 13
- 9781900988575
- Publisher
- Barzan Publishing 1900988577
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2003-11
- Keywords
- Biography, Horse Breeding, Travel, Women Writers
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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