SAROLEA, Charles. The Bagdad Railway and German Expansion as a Factor in European Politics. London: Oliver and Boyd. 1907.
8vo. Green printed card wrappers; pp. 31, entirely uncut and unopened, printed on high-quality laid paper; apart from oxidasation to wire-stitching, fine.
First edition. The Belgian-born philologist and auth0r of works on Russia, geopolitics and the Great Game Charles Louis-Camille Saroléa lived in Edinburgh. This rare pamphlet was published in the year the Hejaz Railway reached Al-'Ula station and six years before completion. Sarolea comments on the news that a German company has obtained a licence to built a line from Aleppo to Mecca. 'The Holy Land will become a German Province. The network of German railways will radiate from Mecca to Constantinople, and from Smyrna to the Persian Gulf' (p. 25).
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