BLACK TENTS OF ARABIA, by Carl Raswan, has been praised as a love story, as an adventure story, as a travel book, and as an insider's vision of a much-misunderstood people. It is all of those things, and if Raswan had been given a free hand it would also have been a definitive study of the Arabian Horse; but the editors of Little, Brown, and Company were not horsemen, and in 1934 Raswan was not yet famous enough to override them. They made him condense the story of his first year in Arabia to a single chapter, and rearrange ...
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BLACK TENTS OF ARABIA, by Carl Raswan, has been praised as a love story, as an adventure story, as a travel book, and as an insider's vision of a much-misunderstood people. It is all of those things, and if Raswan had been given a free hand it would also have been a definitive study of the Arabian Horse; but the editors of Little, Brown, and Company were not horsemen, and in 1934 Raswan was not yet famous enough to override them. They made him condense the story of his first year in Arabia to a single chapter, and rearrange the other material to keep the love-story up front. "I suppose it made a better book," Raswan commented wistfully, "though they made me leave out enough for several more." It made a book that has been loved in all its incarnations for sixty-seven years; but horse-lovers have always wished there were more about horses in it, and Mrs. Carl Raswan has expanded this edition to include a selection of her husband's early articles. Readers can learn more about his first trip to Arabia in his adventure book Drinkers of The Wind, and more about Arabian-breeding in The Arab and His Horse and The RASWAN INDEX. All three are available from Mrs. Carl Raswan, 16002 Walnut Creek, San Antonio, TX 78247.
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Good. No Jacket. A Good copy of the third printing with significant wear and moderate discoloration to brown cloth boards, moderate tanning and spotting to edges, and name of previous owner inked on front cover verso. Dust jacket missing. 159pp., b/w photographs and maps, 12mo-over 6¾ in. -7¾ in.
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Very good in very good jacket. Photo Illus. 8vo, black boards, d.w. spine ends and edges of corners of boards lightly rubbed. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1971).
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7.75"-9.75" tall; 2nd printing of the first edition hardcover in rust colored, cloth covered boards with sharp tips and lightly bumped spine ends. Two tiny (and tidy) former owner's names on fep, else the 206 pp text is crisp and unmarked. Original, un-clipped illustrated peach background dust wrapper shows small chips at periphery and 1/2" loss at head of backstrip that wraps around 1" onto the head of the rear panel. One 1" closed tear at foot of rear dj panel with 1/4" loss, one small, gently colored in sticker pull and two areas of light soil on frt panel. First hand account of the author's time amongst the Bedouin tribesman of the Arabian desert, shortly before the outbreak of World War I. Raswan spent time migrating, hunting, raiding, starving and feasting with them. Raswan traveled to the area initially to research the breeding and history of Arabian horses. Includes photographs taken by the author.
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