His Highness the Amir of Kuwait, Shaikh Sabah Alsalim
Jabir AlMurri
Fisal Alhindal
Nasser Rassih AlMurri
A Persian Inhabitant of Failaka Island
Making Coffe
Moving Camp by Lorry
A Badwin Baby
Badwin Children
Humber used in all Desert Journey
Author in Camp with Nasser Jabi Murri
Author & Friends crossing to Taruat Island
Hafar Albain: an Old Water Well
The Greek Temple after Excavation on Failka Island
Qaryat Alfaw
Thaj
Contents
Author's Note
Prologue
Part I
Mesopotamia and India 1920-28; Bushire 1928-9
A bride in Mesopotamia
Unsettled Times
Quetta, Bikaner, and Bushire
Part II
Kuwait 1929-39Life at the Political Agency
People and Events 1929-32
The beginning of OilFirst Years with the Kuwait Oil Company 136-39
Part III
The war years and after, 1939-59
Kuwait in Wartime (1) 1939-41
Kuwait in Wartime (2)1942-45
Joy and Sorrow 1942-59
Staying on in Kuwait
Illustrations
Hillah, 1921. Author and Husband (Author in Arab dress)
Harold after a game of Polo
The residency at Bushire
Bikaner. H.H. The Maharajah in Gujner Palace, with Biji SinghBikaner,
Lallgrah Palace, 1925
Group of Residency staff at bushire, 1928
Historic photo of King bin Saud at Khabari WadhaCaptain H.R.P Dickson , 1919
Hawking hubara in Kuwait desert
(Bomber) Squadron at Jahra on January 7, 1930
Bomber in action against rebels
Harold entering a Kuwaiti in his office, 1950
Harold and the author in their drawing room, 1958
His Highness The Amir of Kuwait
Jabir, a Mutti Companion
Faisal Hindal
Nasser Rashid Murri
A Persian inhabitant of Failaka Island
After moving camp
Moving camp by lorry
A badawin baby
Badawin children
Humber used in all the desert journeys, and Ali in camp with Nasser Jabir Murri, 1968 Author and friends crossing to Taurt Island
Hafar al Batin: an old water well
The Greek Temple on Failaka Island
Qaryat al Faw
Thaj
References
Forty years in Kuwait, Viloet Dickson George Allen & Unwin 1970
Dame vilet Dickson Claudia Alrashoud wikipedia.com
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