An Expedition Through Mesopotamia and Kurdistan
by
G. E. Hubbard
William Blackwood, Edinburgh and London, 1917
(The first Edition was published in 1916)
FROM THE GULF
TO
ARARAT
An Expedition Through Mesopotamia and Kurdistan
by
G. E. Hubbard
William Blackwood, Edinburgh and London, 1917
(The first Edition was published in 1916)
Six of the Kurds who attacked our party, behind: "Simko" and his body guard
Beyez Agha, Chief of the Kurdish Mangur tribe
The Sheik's Feast
Mukri Kurds at Vezneh
About the Book
“From the Gulf to Ararat” is the account of a journey the author, together with a small party of British, Russian, Turks and Persians, made in the autumn of 1914, shortly after the outbreak of the First World War, from southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) through Iraqi Kurdistan to Mount Ararat.
Hubbard was the Secretary of the British Delimitation Committee which, between 1913 -1915 was engaged in negotiating a boundary line between Turkey and Persia.
The substance of this book consists of little of a record of personal experiences and impressions of the tribes and countries through which the group passed on the little-trodden paths from the Persian Gulf to Mount Ararat in the Caucasus. The majority of the photographs which illustrate this book were taken by Captain Brooke who accompanied Hubbard.
The Chapters include:
Marseilles to Mohammerah
Preliminaries to the start
Through the land of Elam
The Wali of Pusht-I-Kuh
Towards Bagdad
Dar-El-Khalifeh
Mesopotamia in retrospect
Entering Kurdistan
Along the Avromans
The heart of Kurdistan
Kurdish history, customs, and character
From the Zab to Ushnu.
About the Author G. E. Hubbard (1885 - ?)
G. E. Hubbard was a British Army officer with considerable experience of the Middle East.
He also wrote “The Day of the Crescent” and “British Far Eastern Policy”.
