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Folding sheet 109 x 72cm printed to both sides, by George Philip & Son, GB. Very good, lightly creased. This Arab Crisis map contains a significant amount of information. The "Daily Mail Map of the Middle East" by Stanford appears in colour to the recto, 55 miles to 1 inch, with continuation of the southern part of the Arabian peninsula 160 miles to 1 inch, and inset of the Suez Canal. This shows oil installations and pipelines, railways, roads, caravan routes, shipping routes, submarine cables, wadis, etc. Philips' b/w "Daily Mail Oil Map of the World" to the verso, shows annual production pictorially. Text titled "The Middle East" profiles the countries (UAR, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey, Persia, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Trucial States, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Muscat and Oman, Cyprus, and Israel) with photo portraits of their leaders, the Baghdad Pact Organisation, Arab League, and Arab Union. The UAR section includes stats on the recently nationalised Suez Canal. Tables and charts show global production current and historic (1920-57), global refining capacity, and UK imports and trade with the Middle East. Rare - 5 copies on Worldcat and Jisc (BL, Oxford University, National Library of Scotland, Library of Congress, University of Otago).
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