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A Flying Visit

A Flying Visit

A Flying Visit

To The Middle East
Samuel Hoare
March 2015
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9781107492868

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    Originally published in 1925, this book contains the text of lectures made by Sir Samuel Hoare, then the Secretary of State for Air, to students at Harrow School on the subject of his visit to various territories in the Middle East that were under British control after the First World War, including Baghdad and Jerusalem. The text is conversational and easy to read, and photographs of the people, animals and places seen on Hoare's journey are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the Middle East or in British colonial history.

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    March 2015
    Paperback
    9781107492868
    114 pages
    198 × 129 × 6 mm
    0.1kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Preface
    • The object of the journey
    • The journey
    • The air command and the desert route.
      Author
    • Samuel Hoare