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'Handbook of Yemen' [8r] (20/190)
The record is made up of 1 volume (91 folios). It was created in 1917. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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ground-water and receive more surface flow down its
wddis. Consequently it supports, not only far more village
life than the Asir and Hejaz littorals, but also considerable
urban communities, beside port-towns. There is nothing
in Asir (still less in Hejaz) to correspond to the inland
towns of the Yemen Tihamah, Beit el-Faqih, Zebid,
and Hais, besides several large villages like Zeidiyah,
Marawah, Mansuriyah, etc., which are all but towns. Some
islands lie off this coast; but, except the Kamaran group,
about ten miles south of Loheiah, and Perim, off Sheikh
Sa'id, no one island of any importance is near enough to
the mainland to be reckoned to Yemen. The Yemen Tiha
mah varies in breadth from some thirty miles in the
north, about Hodeidah, to a few hundred yards in the
south, near Sheikh Sa'id.
(2) The Maritime Range again is a feature which Yemen
has in common with the rest of the West Arabian littoral.
It once more attains the elevation it reached in Midian,
Mount Shibam, above Menakhah, being nearly, if not quite,
9,000 feet high. But it is a more complicated and extensive
system in Yemen than in Hejaz, and betrays more clearly
its derivation from the wasted western edge of the main
shelf. It throws out long spurs into the Tihamah, and
encloses long wddis, the greater of which originate behind
it, and give access by their valleys to the Main Ridge. Such,
ior example, is the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Siham, which debouches south of
Hodeidah. The Maritime Range is extensively cultivated
in terraces.
(3) The Intramontane Uplands lie at an average eleva
tion of some 4,000 feet. They have a valley, rather than
plateau, character, and are intersected by foothills and
ridges and studded with solitary hillocks.
(4) The Main Ridge varies in altitude from 7,000 to
9,000 feet, and occasional swells (rather than peaks) rise
yet another 1,000 feet or more. It is seamed with deep
ravines and valleys which often are lined with cultivation
and dotted with villages, especially in the southern part
near the Aden border.
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- Content
The volume is Handbook of Yemen. Prepared by the Arab Bureau, Cairo , 1st edn, 15 January 1917 (Cairo: Government Press, 1917).
The handbook contains information about Yemen under the following headings:
- Area;
- Physical Character (including Relief and Climate);
- Population;
- Districts and Towns;
- Agriculture and Industries;
- Trade (including Currency, and Weights and Measures);
- Political;
- Yemen Army Corps;
- Tribal Notes;
- Personalities;
- Communications;
- Routes.
The prefatory note states that the handbook had been compiled by Major K Cornwallis and Lieutenant-Commander D G Hogarth, RNVR from information obtained in Cairo (especially about tribes and personalities) and from material prepared for the Arabia Handbook issued by the Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division.
The volume contains an 'Outline Map of Yemen' (f 6).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (91 folios)
- Arrangement
There is a list of contents at the front of the volume (f 5).
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 93 on the inside back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. This is the system used to determine the sequence of pages within the volume.
Pagination: the volume also has an original printed pagination sequence numbered 2-167 (ff 7-92).
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- English in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- Title
- 'Handbook of Yemen'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:5v, 7r:92v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence