Arabia The Isles [Hardcover]

First Published in 1998. Harold Ingrams is an officer of the Colonial Administrative Service who has had a varied career. In the war of 1914--18 he served for five years with the King's Shropshire Light Infantry and was wounded in Belgium in 1916. He entered the Colonial Service in 1919 and held appointments in Mauritius and Zanzibar, descriptions of which appear in this book. In Zanzibar Ingrams came into contact with Arabs from southern Arabia, and he learnt from Hadhrami visitors of their native land, so close to the activities of the outer world, and yet so remote from them, so prosperous and so poor, so civilized and so savage. The Hadhranlaut is indeed a country of contrasts, with its wealthy Seyyids and its impoverished peasants, its handsome towns, country houses and estates, and its turbulent tribes, banditry and blood feuds. Although part of the British Protectorate of Aden, the wide valley of the HadhranIaut had claimed isolated by its natural barriers of mountains on the south and desert on the north.PART I I. The Erythraean Sea II. A Pooh Bah in Pemba III. The Green Island: Men of Oman IV. Men of Shihr V. Antres Vast-In Zanzibar Totvn-A Dhotv fro 111 Kuweit Latham Islattd VI. Mauritian Interlude and Oriental Encounters VII. Aden Tolvn VIII. The Aden Protectorate IX. Lahej, Museitnir and the Qat Trade X. Troubled Waters PART II XI. The Far Off Hills of Hadhramaut and the Lands of Genesis XII. The Gateway of the Hadhra111aut XIII. Travel in the Hadhramaut XIV. Wadis and Jols to Du'an XV. I the Valley of Du'an XVI. A Peace-making Patriarch XVII. Into the Wadi Hadhra111aut ?XVIII. The Tomb of Salih and the Se;'ar Country XIX. Seiyun and Tarin' XX. The Ton~b of Hud in the Valley of the Floods ? XXI. A River of the Rivers of Paradise- The Mahra Country XXII. Last Days in Shihr and Mukalla PART III XXIII. Return to the Hadhratnaut and the First Move XXIV. Over the Hills to Tarim XXV. Tribal Warfare and Seiyid Bubakr XXVI. Visits to the Tribes and the First Peal£‰