Rihlati Ila Bilad Al-Rafidayn Wa Irak Al-Arab

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133 pp of Arabic text; Translated from Hungarian byThaier Saleh; publisher’s original wrappers; 1 map, b/w photographs, copy of original 1904 Hungarian wrappers included, index; copy published with the support of the Hungarian Translation Fund. ISBN:9953417962 Account of a journey made in 1901-02 by a Hungarian mission to Syria and Iraq in order to acquire Arab horses for the famous Babolna stud east of Budapest. The mission was headed by a Lebanese (the author), who describes in this work published here for the first time in Arabic the life of the Bedouins and the types of the Arabian horsesin the Syrian and Iraqi deserts.