INGRAMS, Harold.

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A Report on the Social, Economic and Political Condition of the Hadhramaut. First edition, second impression, one of 250 copies only, following the 1936 first impression. Based on a nine-week tour, this report is the first detailed account of the region. Harold and Doreen Ingrams successfully brokered a 1937 tribal truce known as the "Ingrams' Peace", an achievement for which they would be jointly awarded the Lawrence Memorial Medal in 1939.This in-depth study includes information on geography, history, social organization, living conditions, production and resources, communication and transport, and commerce. With accounts of inter-tribal relations and appendices detailing tribes, treaties, and genealogical tables, it stands as one of the most valuable contemporary accounts of the area.In 1934, Harold and Doreen Ingrams (1897-1973 and 1906-1997) were dispatched to the region following the exhortations of the Yemeni magnate Sayyid Abubakr bin Shaikh Al-Kaff. The Hadhramaut was wracked by internecine conflict, making normal life "almost impossible" (Bidwell, p. 185). Harold had recently begun working as a political officer in Aden, with Doreen working alongside him in a role in which she, in the words of St John Philby, "hid her light under the bushel of her husband's fame" (The British-Yemeni Society). During their tour, the Ingrams became the first Europeans to visit some of the remoter wadis and villages, and Doreen was the first European woman to visit the city of Seiyun,

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