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Powell, E[Dward] Alexander.

The Last Home of Mystery. Adventures in Nepal together with accounts of Ceylon, British India, the Native States, the Persian Gulf, the Overland Desert Mail and the Baghdad Railway.

Garden City, New York, Garden City Publishing Co. (Star Books), - (1929).,

120.00 €

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(Wien, Austria)

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Author
Powell, E[Dward] Alexander.
Publishers
Garden City, New York, Garden City Publishing Co. (Star Books),, (1929).
Keyword
Middle East, incl. Arabian Gulf: History, Travels, Falconry and Horses
Languages
English

Description

8vo. XI, (1), 332 pp. With 16 photographic illustrations on 8 plates, all in black-and-white halftone, one as a frontispiece. Publisher's illustrated orange cloth. First Garden City edition in the year of the Century Co. first issue. Includes mentions of the "Pirate Coast", Bahrein and the Gulf. The American author E. Alexander Powell (1879-1957) had worked war correspondent during World War I and was commissioned as a captain in military intelligence in 1917. He subsequently took up journalism before switching to a successful career as an adventure and travel writer. - Upper corner a little buckled; a few pencil annotations. From the collection of the Austrian civil servant Dr. Alfred Brandner, with his ownership stamp and inscribed to him (Vienna, 1941) on the flyleaf. - OCLC 408932.
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