A Dweller in Mesopotamia - Donald Maxwell

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       Donald Maxwell

      A Dweller in Mesopotamia

      Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4057664600295

       PLATES IN COLOUR AND MONOCHROME

       LIST OF LINE SKETCHES

       I

       THE FIERY FURNACE

       II

       THE VENICE OF THE EAST.

       III

       SINBAD THE SOLDIER

       IV

       THE WISE MEN FROM THE WEST

       V

       BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON

       VI

       ARABIAN NIGHTS IN 1919

       VII

       IN OLD BAGHDAD

       VIII

       PARADISE LOST

       IX

       THE DESERT OF THE FLAMING SWORD

       X

       THE KINGS OF THE EAST

       Table of Contents

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The Golden Towers of Khadamain Frontispiece
Abadan, Persia, the Oil Quays 4
H.M.S. MANTIS, one of the Monitors on the Tigris 12
Hospital Hulks at Basra 18
"The Solemn Palms were ranged above, unwoo'd of summer wind" 22
The House of Sinbad the Sailor, Basra 24
A Bend in "the Narrows" of the Tigris 30
A Marsh Arabs' Reed Village 34
Mud Houses on the Tigris 40
A Mahaila of the Inland Water Transport 42
Ezra's Tomb 44
On the Euphrates, Early Morning 52
Babylon, the Excavations at El-Kasr 56
An Old World Craft: a type of boat
unchanged since the days of Sinbad 60
Bellams under Sail 62
Babylon the Great is Fallen, is Fallen 64
A Street in Khadamain 70
Moonlight, Baghdad 72
A Nocturne of Baghdad 74
Mahaila and Marsh Arab's Bellam 80
A Moonlight Fantasy: Kut, from the ruins of the Licquorice Factory 94
Dawn at Amara 100
A Backwater in Eden 102
Puffing Billy on the Tigris