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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [6v] (17/862)
The record is made up of 1 volume (430 folios). It was created in 1944. 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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iv PREFACE
The purpose of the books is primarily naval. They are designed
first to provide, for the use of Commanding Officers, information in
a comprehensive and convenient form about countries which they
may be called upon to visit, not only in war but in peace-time;
secondly, to maintain the high standard of education, in the Navy
and, by supplying officers with material for lectures to naval personnel
ashore and afloat, to ensure for all ranks that visits to a new country
shall be both interesting and profitable.
Their contents are, however, by no means confined to matters of
purely naval interest. For many purposes (e.g. history, administra
tion, resources, communications, &c.) countries must necessarily be
treated as a whole, and no attempt is made to limit their treatment
exclusively to coastal zones. It is hoped therefore that the Army,
the Royal Air Force, and other Government Departments (many of
whom have given great assistance in the production of the series)
will find these Handbooks even more valuable than their predecessors
proved to be both during and after the last war.
J. H. GODFREY
Director of Naval Intelligence
I 94 2
The foregoing preface has appeared from the beginning of this
series of Geographical Handbooks. It describes so effectively their
origin and purpose that I have decided to retain it in its original
form.
This volume has been prepared by the Oxford sub-centre of the
Naval Intelligence Division under the direction of Lieut.-Colonel
K. Mason, M.C., M.A., R.E., Professor of Geography in the Uni
versity of Oxford, and is the work of a number of contributors,
whose names are given on page 643.
E. G. N. RUSHBROOKE
Director of Naval Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 1944
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The volume is titled Iraq and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (London: Naval Intelligence Division, 1944).
The report contains preliminary remarks by the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1942 (John Henry Godfrey) and the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1944 (E G N Rushbrook).
There then follows thirteen chapters:
- I. Introduction.
- II. Geology and description of the land.
- III. Coasts of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
- IV. Climate, vegetation and fauna.
- V. History.
- VI. People.
- VII. Distribution of the people.
- VIII. Administration and public life.
- IX. Public health and disease.
- X. Irrigation, agriculture, and minor industry.
- XI. Currency, finance, commerce and oil.
- XII. Ports and inland towns.
- XIII. Communications.
- Appendices: stratigraphy; meteorological tables; ten historical sites, chronological table; weights and measures; authorship, authorities and maps.
There follows a section listing 105 text figures and maps and a section listing over 200 illustrations.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (430 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is divided into a number of chapters, sub-sections whose arrangement is detailed in the contents section (folios 7-13) which includes a section on text-figures and maps, and list of illustrations. The volume consists of front matter pages (xviii), and then a further 682 pages in the original pagination system.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 430; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Title
- 'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:253r, 254r, 255r:429v, 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