Sons of Sinbad: An account of sailing with the Arabs in their dhows, in the Red Sea, round the Coasts of Arabia, and to Zanzibar and Tanganyika; Pearling in the Persian Gulf; and the Life of the shipmasters and the mariners of Kuwait
by VILLIERS, ALAN
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Hodder & Stoughton 1940. Scarce but rare in d/w, only a handful of copies left as the building this book was published in was blown up in the air raids of WW2 destroying most of the books, first edition, octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xiv + 346pp, illus, VG (light soiling to boards, light foxing to page edges, bookseller's label to fep) in d/w VG (light tanning, light bruising to spine extrems & cover corners, light rubbing, light foxing)
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- Title
- Sons of Sinbad: An account of sailing with the Arabs in their dhows, in the Red Sea, round the Coasts of Arabia, and to Zanzibar and Tanganyika; Pearling in the Persian Gulf; and the Life of the shipmasters and the mariners of Kuwait
- Author
- VILLIERS, ALAN
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton 1940
- Keywords
- travels voyages history sailing nautical Coasts Arabia Persian Gulf mariners autobiography arabs seafaring
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