Kuwait by the First Photographers.
London. I.B.Tauris. 1999. Stock ID #53789 This book "documents the period between 1900 and 1950, which saw Kuwait's emergence from a vunerable shaikhdom negotiating a precarious independece amongst neighbouring powers - the British in India and the Gulf, the Ottoman Turks in Mesopotamia, and the central Arabian chieftaincies of Ha'il and Riyadh - to a nation state with the highest per capita income in the world. It is an outstanding visual record of a crucial time before the centuries-old way of life, centering on pearling, fishing, boat-building and trade by land and sea, was swept away." Publisher's Description. When referring to this item please quote stockid 53789.
Many stricking black and white photographic plates, 128pp, bibliography, index, hardback with dustjacket. Oblong quarto.
Price: $33.00 AU