Reprint Searching Ancient Remains Lower by Dougherty Raymond (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Printed wraps 19 x 26cm. 93pp including 72 b/w photos, 4 maps, and index of sites studied. Inscribed "With the writer's compliments" to the front. Wraps good with a patches of loss and short tears to the spine. Interiors very good. The author prepared his survey whilst on leave from Goucher College at Yale. He credits Gertrude Bell, Leonard Woolley, Dr Albright among others for their cooperation surveying these largely unexplored sites ("terra incognita"), that Bell had recommended to him "without hesitation". In addition to his findings, he gives a lengthy discussion of practicalities and methods, with helpful observations concerning the presence of mirages, sand storms, desert terrain, travel on land and water, military escort, hospitality of Arabs, dealing with Arabs, local interest in antiquities, maintaining health, etc. He also gives a chronological summary of previous explorations from Fraser in 1835 to Albright in 1925. Inscribed by Author(s).