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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. 1973 copy. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. Very small amount of marking due to age but minimal. Best copy I have seen. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Kuwait Bahrain Saudi Arabia and new friends for many kinds of hospitality. I remember with gratitude their generosity with gifts of their time of meals beds lifts loans of equipment and good company in all weathers- through seas of mud in Pakistan or high winds in Arabia. The Secretary and staff of the Royal Geographical Society helped me with my maps and access to Philby’s letters survey notes and plotting sheets. The British Museum staff was generous with in- formation about Philby’s contributions to scientific knowledge. Libraries that helped me were Trinity College Cambridge; St. Antony’s College Oxford; the School of Oriental Studies Durham University; the Hoover Institution University of California at Stanford; the Public Record Office London; the India Office London; the Pakistan Public Record Office Lahore; the B.B.C. Written Archives Centre Reading; the Royal Central Asian Society; the Royal Asiatic Society Chatham House and the London Library. Friends in the service of the Royal Saudi Arabian Government the British and American Foreign Services the Arabian American Oil Company the Iraq Petroleum Company and the Mitchell Cotts Group Ltd. helped me with their recollections and I thank the friends named on p. 8 for lending me photographs. I am specially indebted to those patient enough to read and comment on the whole of my manuscript-Janet Adam Smith Sir Reader Bullard R. M. Burrell Albert Hourani and Homer Muller. (SP)