A Journey through the Yemen and some General Remarks upon that Country.

HARRIS Walter B. (1893.)

£400.00  [First Edition]

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First edition. Large folding map, 2 other maps, 24 plates and numerous illustrations in the text. A cutting (The Revolt in Yemen, from The Times, 8/2/1911) glued onto paste-down endpaper. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth gilt, headcaps a touch worn, a tear to head of spine, corners slightly bumped.. xii, 385, 32ads.pp. London, William Blackwood and Sons,

As well as detailing his travels through the Yemen (from Aden to the coast of the Red Sea at Hodaidah via Sana), which had previously been recorded in the Illustrated London News, Harris gives over five chapters to the history of the area.

Macro, 1132.

Stock Code: 217301

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