FIELD, Claud. With the Afghans.

FIELD, Claud. With the Afghans. London: Marshall Brothers. [1908].

8vo. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt; pp. vi, [6], 221, [2, advertisements], one map and plates after photographs; apart from spotting of and offsetting from endpapers to initial and final leaves, a little spotting to text, a good copy of a very rare title; school prize bookplate inside front cover.

First edition of this first-hand record of a missionary's sojourn in Afghanistan, with good images of landscape, architecture and people. Claud Field (1863–1941) was a British author, translator, and Christian missionary who specialized in works on Islamic history, mysticism, and culture. As a result if his missionary activity in the closed country Aghanistan he was able to describe land, people, customs, philosophy, the Sunni Islam among the Pashtun, and and everyday life. Claud Field, who was based from 1892 to 1903 in Peshawar deals as well with poetry and gives examples of Afghan fables.

WorldCat locates copies in the BL, at Trinity, Dublin, Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh University.

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