Author: Churchill, Colonel.
Title: MOUNT LEBANON. A Ten Years’ Residence From 1842 to 1852 Describing the Manners, Customs, and Religion of its Inhabitants. With a Full and Correct Account of the Druse Religion and Containing Historical Records of the Mountain Tribes From Personal Intercourse with Their Chiefs and Other Authentic Sources. Volume 2 [only of 3].
Description: Saunders and Otley, 1853. 1st Ed. Litho. port. frontis., litho. plate. Light age toning, prelims. spotted, original blind embossed purple cloth, some fading, sl. bumped to upper board, faded spine chipped with loss. ¶ Scarce and important work, dedicated to the Duke of Wellington. Blackmer 353. Colonel Charles Henry Spencer-Churchill (1828–1877) British officer and diplomat and a British consul in Ottoman Syria who created the first political plan for Zionism and the creation of the state of Israel in the region of Ottoman Palestine. Churchill wrote several important (cultural) historical work on the Middle East, including a major biography of Abd el-Kader, whom he had met during his exile in Damascus.

Keywords: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL; NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST


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