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Author : George Bury
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494167859
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1915 Edition.
Author : George Wyman Bury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Yemen
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119375983
Author : George Wyman Bury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Turkey
ISBN : UOM:39015012990043
Arabia infelix; or the Turks in Yamen is a history of Yemen and the southern Arabian Peninsula from earliest times to the eve of World War I. George Wyman Bury (1874-1920) was an adventurer and sometime soldier who spent 16 years exploring the mountainous regions of Yemen. Arabia infelix covers all aspects of Yemen, which, until the end of the war, formed part of the Ottoman Empire. Chapters treat biblical and ancient history, flora and fauna, the manners and customs of its rural and urban population, as well as economic life, trade, and politics. In ancient times, the arid region stretching from Anatolia to Aden was divided roughly into three parts, Arabia Deserta (Deserted Arabia), Arabia Petra (the frontier of the Roman Empire), and Arabia Felix (Happy Arabia, or Yemen), so named because there was sufficient rainfall to support an agricultural economy. By entitling his book Arabia infelix (Unhappy Arabia), Bury signals his view that Turkish rule was an impediment to the prosperity and well-being of the country. G.W. Bury spent most of his life outside his native Britain, living in parts of Africa, in Yemen, and then in Egypt, where he served in the British army as a junior officer and military analyst. Chronic poor health harmed his career and shortened his life. He died in convalescence in Helwan, a health resort near Cairo. His other works include The Land of Uz, a travel narrative written under the pen name Abdullah Mansur, and Pan-Islam, a post-war study of Turkish and German attempts to rally the Muslim world against the Allied powers in World War I. Bury's writing was not always well reviewed, perhaps because it lacked the heft and gravitas of writings by other travelers. His style is almost conversational, as in this quip about insect life in Yemen: "The prevalent creepy-crawly in Yamen is certainly the millipede." The book contains three maps and numerous photographs of landscapes, city views, and Yemeni people.
Author : G. Wyman Bury
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0331849321
Excerpt from Arabia Infelix: Or the Turks in Yamen Since this book went to press the Powers of Europe have grappled in a struggle that is shaking the western hemisphere. Turkey, after wobbling for weeks on the brink of hostilities, has been pushed over by her Turco-German war-party. The whole incident shows how a strong military clique can drive an unstable government to disaster. Turkeys attitude towards the British, who have guaranteed the integrity of her empire for more than half a century, is largely the outcome of Teutonic intrigue, but our action in retaining her two new battleships (the Sultan Osman and the Reshadieh) had more to do with it than most of us imagine. The subscription for those ships was a religious matter, to which all classes had contributed their utmost. We should not like our subscriptions for a new cathedral to be arbitrarily diverted to the building of a mosque. By the law of nations we were justified in our embargo on those battleships, but sentiment is impervious to logic, and popular feeling in Turkey became violently Anglophobe, though many of her greatest men realized what her departure from neutrality would mean. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : G. Wyman Bury
Publisher : Trieste Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0649126629
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Author : Jerome Meckier
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783643901019
Aldous Huxley began as a poet. He perfected the voice of the modern satirical poet of ideas, who used art against itself to produce a parodic poetry of breakdowns, collapses, stalemates, and dead ends best suited to the apparent pointlessness of the post-war era. His cleverest, most irreverent poems are contrapuntal: they, in effect, silence venerable poets and cancel traditional formats. Huxley's poetic personas either fail to preserve conventional forms or purposely sabotage them. By 1920, Huxley became the parodic equivalent of the formative intelligences (i.e., Dante, Goethe, and Lucretius) who once synthesized their respective eras positively. In this book, author Jerome Meckier explicates most of Huxley's poems, including Leda, his masterpiece, an ironical modern myth. Meckier traces Huxley's development in terms of the poets he inserted in five of his eleven novels, along with their poems. These poets mostly fail as poets, their different stances falling apart one after another. But Huxley began to detect a spiritual significance underlying the creative urge. This allowed him to rehabilitate many of the Romantic and Victorian poets he formerly ridiculed as frauds and liars. Eventually, he celebrated mystical contemplation as silent poetry, positing a utopia in which everyone is a poet to the limits of his or her potentiality. Huxley became the perennial philosopher, a neo-Brahmin: the sage-like figure he initially personified parodically. His paradigmatic career took him from a Pyrrhonic silencing of outmoded poems and poets to the advocacy of a poetry of silence. (Series: "Human Potentialities". Studien zu Aldous Huxley & zeitgenossischer Kultur/Studies in Aldous Huxley & Contemporary Culture - Vol. 11)
Author : George Wyman 1874 Bury
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1360417796
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Author : G. Wyman (George Wyman) 1874 Bury
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1360417761
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Author : Naval Intelligence Division
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136209956
First published in 2006. Produced during the Second World War for the use of commanding officers, this work is a complete guide to the lands of Western Arabia. Sections on geology, geography, the coasts, climate, vegetation, history, administration, people, public health, agriculture, economy, ports and towns offer readers a unique military perspective on this important region. Supplemented with hundreds of maps, photographs and figures, this book will be of great use to anyone with an interest in Arabia.
Author : James A. Montgomery
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512818123
The author of this volume, though a comparison of scriptural quotations with all present knowledge of the historical backgrounds of the Bible, shows that the Semitic people and their religion were more closely allied to Arabia than to the cultures of Egypt and Babylon.
Author : Priya Satia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199734801
In this groundbreaking book, Priya Satia tracks the intelligence community's tactical grappling with this problem and the myriad cultural, institutional, and political consequences of their methodological choices during and after the Great War.
Author : Benjamin Reilly
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821445402
In Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula, Benjamin Reilly illuminates a previously unstudied phenomenon: the large-scale employment of people of African ancestry as slaves in agricultural oases within the Arabian Peninsula. The key to understanding this unusual system, Reilly argues, is the prevalence of malaria within Arabian Peninsula oases and drainage basins, which rendered agricultural lands in Arabia extremely unhealthy for people without genetic or acquired resistance to malarial fevers. In this way, Arabian slave agriculture had unexpected similarities to slavery as practiced in the Caribbean and Brazil. This book synthesizes for the first time a body of historical and ethnographic data about slave-based agriculture in the Arabian Peninsula. Reilly uses an innovative methodology to analyze the limited historical record and a multidisciplinary approach to complicate our understandings of the nature of work in an area that is popularly thought of solely as desert. This work makes significant contributions both to the global literature on slavery and to the environmental history of the Middle East—an area that has thus far received little attention from scholars.
Author : J. R. Smart,Gerald Rex Smith,B. R. Pridham
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0859895521
New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion. It provides authoritative information intended to appeal to both the specialist and general reader. Both the traditional and the modern aspects of Arabia are covered, excluding contemporary controversial politics.
Author : James Hull
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783825876630
This psychological reading of Huxley's oeuvre as a whole traces Huxley's self-transformation in his books and aims to do justice to the artist and the person who was Aldous Huxley. It is safe to regard as basic to his entire work the unfolding of the conflict we find so clearly delineated in his early short story "Farcical History of Richard Greenow" (Limbo, 1920), with Pearl Bellairs representing the emotional tradition that threatens the synthetic philosopher. Huxley's own story is plainly visible even in Limbo and Crome Yellow (1921), but it is in Antic Hay (1923) that the pattern of the future assumes a solid foundation. There we encounter in full force the tensions that follow him throughout his life: on the one hand an extreme of sensuality and on the other a longing for the "chaste pleasures," for a quiet and mystical worid completely different from that in which he found himself. The question of the relations between body and mind as well as the mystery of human consciousness haunt him to the very last, but after his mid-life crisis, depicted in Eyeless in Gaza (1936), a strong faith in the reality of a spiritual world is obvions. In the end he even manages to reinstate the body in his scheme of things. (Series: "Human Potentialities". Studien zu Aldous Huxley & zeitgenossischer Kultur/Studies in Aldous Huxley & Contemporary Culture - Vol. 5)
Author : J. R. Smart,B. R. Pridham,G. Rex Smith
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996-03
Category : Arabian Peninsula
ISBN : 0859894797
New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion. It provides authoritative information intended to appeal to both the specialist and general reader. Both the traditional and the modern aspects of Arabia are covered, excluding contemporary controversial politics.