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Item Details
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THE LAND OF THE DATE
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| By: |
C.M. Cursetjee |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£30.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1859640389 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781859640388 |
| Publisher: |
GARNET PUBLISHING LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 1996 |
| Edition: |
Facsimile of 1918 ed |
| Series: |
Folios Archive Library |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Description: |
At the end of 1916, Cursetjee Manockjee Cursetjee, a retired judge, set out from Bombay on a journey to the Persian Gulf. This is an entertaining, instructive and far-sighted account of the Gulf in the earlier part of the 20th century. |
| Synopsis: |
"A date palm shooting up fifty feet and more with its canopy of waving, bristle-pointed leaves, its spathe gemmed with thousands of blossoms and its fruit hanging in golden clusters, rivalling the apples of Hesperides, is a lovely sight to behold; 'a vision of delight' indeed. The date-tree, besides furnishing its abundant fruit so valuable as human food, affords materials for a score and more of domestic uses. It is thus well pronounced to be the most useful product of the vegetable kingdom. A veritable boon and blessing in these desert-bound lands of the date." At the end of 1916, Cursetjee Manockjee Cursetjee, a retired judge, set out from Bombay on a journey to the Persian Gulf. Despite the fact that he was nearly seventy and Basra was still considered a war zone at the time, being the main base for the British campaign in Mesopotamia, he was not deterred from making the trip. It is a cheerful, charming, rather naive narrative with much of interest, providing a lively picture of the major ports on both sides of the Gulf.He took an interest in everything that he saw: the technique of loading ships, fisheries, the pearl-trade, commerce in the bazaars, architecture, food and, naturally, date cultivation, and describes them with almost boyish enthusiasm. This is an entertaining, instructive and far-sighted account of the Gulf in the earlier part of the 20th century. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Ithaca Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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