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In a long career in the Indian army and political service, colonel Samuel Barrett Miles built up an unrivalled knowledge of the countries and peoples of the Persian Gulf. travelling overland on camels and by sea in dhows, often one of the first foreigners to visit the gulf's remote places, he observed and recorded social conditions, architecture, agriculture, fishing, commerce including the... Read more
VOLUME I: CHAPTER I History of Early Colonization CHAPTER II The Persian Gulf Under Islam CHAPTER III The Portuguese in Eastern Arabia CHAPTER IV The Yaareba Dynasty VOLUME II: CHAPTER V The Al-Bu Saeedi Dynasty CHAPTER VI History of the Commerce of the Persian Gulf CHAPTER VII Description of the Country and the Pearl Fisheries CHAPTER VIII The Tribes of the Persian Gulf CHAPTER IX Arabia, Eastern and South-Eastern, and the Kooria Mooria Islands CHAPTER X History and Geography of Dhofar. Dhofar and Beraimi described, APPENDIX.
Biography
Samuel Barrett Miles, 1838-1914, the son of a general in the military service of the East India company, was educated at Harrow, entered the Indian army, and was subsequently appointed resident at Aden in 1867; political agent and Consul at muscat in 1874; Consul-General of Baghdad in 1879 and consul-general of Zanzibar in 1881.
