The Arab of the desert
Subtitle: a glimpse into Badawin life in Kuwait and Sau'di Arabia.
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin
Published: 1949
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 648
Subjects: Bedouins
Description: The author was born in Beiru. He began collecting material for this book in 1929 and finished research for it in 1936. He was interested in providing information about the customs and people of Kuwait. Dickson describes nomadic life, the tent, the tent's furnishings, valuables, and gendered spaces within the tent, the Bedouin social system, storytelling (and several stories), proverbs, dream interpretation, warfare, domesticated and wild animals, disease, crime, slavery, boat building, pearl diving, and dancing.
Notes: Part of illustrated matter in pocket.

Edited by E. O. Lorimer (Mrs. D. L. R. Lorimer).

Errata slip inserted.