Stevens e s lady drower (2 résultats)

First edition hardback. xiv + 349pp. Original publisher's red clothbound, gilt titles to spine, hardback, No dust jacket. illustrated in b/w plates. Showing overall very minor rubbing and wear, few small marks, dustiness to edges and none of the usual fading, some very light rubbing to the spine, internally clean, bright and tig…

First Edition. Ethel Stefana Stevens, Lady Drower weas a prominent early woman traveller to the middle east. Though untrained as a scholar, she learned Arabic while stationed with her husband in Iraq, and would later teach herself Aramaic as well. While in Iraq, Drower began to develop what would become a lifelong fascination wi…