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'The Penetration of Arabia a record of the development of Western knowledge concerning the Arabian Peninsula with illustrations from drawings, photographs, and maps by J. G. Bartholomew.' [‎146] (223/496)

The record is made up of 1 volume (359 pages). It was created in 1904. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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i 4 6 ARABIA
Halevy, Doughty, Huber, Euting, Glaser, Hirsch,
and Bent, names with which is associated nearly all
the romantic element in the history of Arabian
exploration.
It was not given to Wellsted, however, to follow
up his discovery. Greatly as he wished to penetrate
either to the heart of the Sabaean land behind Yemen
or to that of the incense country in Hadramaut, he
failed, as we have seen, to pass the barriers set by
nature and man. To all requests for furtherance
inland the chiefs of Makalla and Sheher opposed an
obstinate refusal, and Wellsted had to be content with
making notes from hearsay. In these he first em
phasised the importance of one main wady in the in
terior, which he called Hadramaut proper, and of the
town of Terim, then the most populous.
Singularly fertile and self-sufficing, the settled dis
tricts of Hadramaut are so situated geographically as
to hang closely together, and to be isolated as a
whole from the rest of the peninsula; while at the
same time they lie within reach of ports which are
in constant communication with mid-eastern Africa
and India. The main fertile valley of the region,
carrying the drainage of the southeastward slope of
the highlands of Southwest Arabia, lies for a long
distance (about five hundred miles) almost parallel to
the coast, but screened by a high desert plateau. The
fact that its waters are absorbed in the irrigation of
this long depression leaves the last hundred miles of
the main wady a desert, and removes the oasis tracts

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The Penetration of Arabia a record of the development of Western knowledge concerning the Arabian Peninsula with illustrations from drawings, photographs, and maps by J. G. Bartholomew .

Publication Details: London, Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd. 16 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W.C.

Notes: In : Keltie (Sir, J.S.) The Story of Exploration, etc. 1903, etc. 8º.

Physical Description: xv, 359 p.

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Dimensions: 225mm x 150mm

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