An American missionary who lived in Arabia describes the peninsula region by region, from Yemen and Hadramaut to Oman, Nejd and the Gulf coast. He covers the tribes, towns and trade, British treaties with the Trucial chiefs, the history of Islam, and the work of Christian missions, writing frankly from the missionary point of view.
A detailed picture of Arabia in 1900, before oil, by one of its best-informed Western observers. Download the free EPUB.