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Luke, The Fringe Of The East.

Luke, Harry Charles / [Anastas Hanania (Jordan)].

The Fringe Of The East together with a collection of manuscript letters from Damascus and his wider trip through the middle east. [These letters reflect the formative years of Sir Harry Luke during his Travels through the Middle East, prior to World War One and shortly before starting his career in the British Colonial Administration / Including also a letter of Palestinian-Jordanian Lawyer Anastas Hanania to Luke].

Glasgow, Robert MacLehose & Co., Ltd., 1913. 22,5 cm x 15 cm. 267 pages. Original Hardcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. With annotations and markings by Harry Luke. Split hinge, detached front board. Fair condition.

Includes loosely inserted:

A travel map of Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, Greece, Italy etc.
A letter from Jordan’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Anastas Hanania.
An article from a newspaper on Aga Khan.
A collection of Manuscript Letters from Harry Charles Luke on his Oriental trip 1907-1908. Beautiful letters on stationery of the Grand Hotel Victoria in Damascus (to his father and mother and sister).

Anastas Hanania (1903 – 1995) was a Palestinian-Jordanian lawyer, judge, official and diplomat.
Hanania was educated at the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut (now the AUB) and the Law College in Jerusalem. He entered the world of Palestinian politics in the late 1930s and 1940s.
After the 1948 Deir Yassin massacre, Hanania and his family left Palestine for Amman. During the 1950s, Hanania was one of the original signatories to the Constitution of Jordan of 1952, which remains the law of the land today.
Between 1960 and 1966, Hanania was Jordan’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom and between 1968 and 1989, he was a Senator in Jordan’s Upper House of Parliament. (Wikipedia)

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Luke, The Fringe Of The East.
Luke, The Fringe Of The East.
Luke, The Fringe Of The East.
Luke, The Fringe Of The East.
Luke, The Fringe Of The East.
Luke, The Fringe Of The East.
Luke, The Fringe Of The East.
Luke, The Fringe Of The East.
Luke, The Fringe Of The East.
Luke, The Fringe Of The East.
Luke, The Fringe Of The East.