Arabia and the Far East. Their Commercial and Cultural Relations in Graeco-Roman and Irano-Arabian Times
Cairo: Société Royale de Géographie D'Égypte, 1942. Hardcover. Quarto. xxix, 319pp., 12 folding maps. Bound in red buckram with original tan wraps bound in. Publisher's devices on cover and title page. "The orthodox distinction between "East" and "West" as two contrasted cultural areas is still widely accepted by students of the general story of world-relations. A traditional "line" of contact between the two cultural areas is generally drawn along the eastern shores of the Mediterranean; a zone which witnessed the earliest struggle between the two civilizations of land and sea in the classical world–namely Ancient Iran (Persia) and Greece." (Huzayyin). This extensive work on the Arabian East provides substantial information on the history of this part of the world, travel and its spacial, economic and cultural relations and development. It expands on commodities of trade and the cultural relations in their geographical settings. The twelve two and multicolored folding maps illustrate the places and trade routes and distinguish between the various Graeco-Roman and Irano-Arabian periods of influence. The final map shows the "tracks of religious drifts between west and east Asia. The back cover lists the distributors of the Société Royale publications. Bound-in original wraps with light wear along edges, one small water stain at lower end of foredge, and lightly rubbed. vg+. Item #47673
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