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My Journey Down The Tigris
A Raft-Voyage Through Dead Kingdoms

by

Dr. S. Guyer

translated by

Joseph McCabe

Hardcover. 8vo. Adelphi Company. 1925. 252 pgs. 14 black and white photos.

Bound in black cloth with faded gilt titles present ot the spine. Previous owner's bookplate on the reverse of the front board. Light foxing present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards lightly rubbed and worn and faded along the spine.

The author was a Swiss academic who lead an archaelogical expedition down the Tigris in 1910-1911 in what (at the time) was an Ottoman province. Interesting, if anything, for the descriptions of pre-oil Iraq. 

FROM WIKIPEDIA:

The Tigris is the eastern member of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of southeastern Turkey through Iraq and empties itself into the Persian Gulf. Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, stands on the banks of the Tigris. The port city of Basra straddles the Shatt al-Arab. In ancient times, many of the great cities of Mesopotamia stood on or near the Tigris, drawing water from it to irrigate the civilization of the Sumerians. Notable Tigris-side cities included Nineveh, Ctesiphon, and Seleucia, while the city of Lagash was irrigated by the Tigris via a canal dug around 2400 B.C.