ARABIA.

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A Handbook of Arabia. Volume I: General. First edition of this regional survey for the armed services, published for official use only and compiled by the Arab Bureau's David Hogarth following his recruitment to naval intelligence in 1915. The four folding maps present Arabia's settlements, tribal distribution, and orographic and land-surface features.After general physical and social surveys, chapters cover Bedouin tribes, the Hejaz, Asir, Yemen, Aden and the Hadhramaut, Oman, the Gulf coast, Nejd, Jebel Shammar, the northern Nefud and Dahanah belts, and settled tribes. The appendices comprise a system of transliteration from Arabic to English and an extensive glossary of topographical terms. "The sources from which this work has been compiled include native information obtained for the purpose since the outbreak of the war. This applies in particular to the strength and distribution of the Bedouin tribes and to their political relationships. Recent information from native sources has also been used for parts of the Red Sea littoral, such as the little-known region of Asir" (preliminary note).Volume II, published the following year, was concerned with detailed routes. The work was reissued in 1920.

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