Author: Johnston, Charles Hepburn
Title: The View from Steamer Point : Being an Account of Three Years in Aden
Description: London, Collins, 1964. orig.cloth, dustwrapper. 224,(8) pp,, 22x14cm, In a rubbed, chipped & torn dustwrapper.. 8pp photoplates. Some minor rubbing. Some top page-edge spotting, VG. ¶ Memoirs of the British Governor of Aden, later High Commissioner, ca. 1960 - 63. Contents: Aleppo to Victoria; Arrival; The Problem; On Tour; A Drive Round the Aden Colony; The Start of the Merger Talks; On Tour Again; Aden &South Arabia; The Eastern Protectorate & the Islands; Agreement in Aden; Private Interlude; Agreement in London; Crisis in Aden; Revolution in Yemen; The Merger; A Day at Government House; Reflections in the Northern Desert; The Last Six Months; Ceremony & Power; Ambassador into Governor; Foreign & Colonial; British Aims in South Arabia; Departure.

Keywords: Yemen, South Arabia, Aden, Diplomatic History, Colonial Memoirs, Administration, British Colonialism, Great Britain,