Pioneers East; The Early American Experience in the Middle East
by: David H. Finnie

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on spine. Maps as endpapers. 333 pages, b&w illustrations. This book covers the first contacts between the United States and the Middle East from the earliest times (1800s) to the mid-nineteenth century. The author describes exotic people and places in the Middle East and how American interests there were far from marginal although centered around the American Protestant missionary activity during that period. Clean copy.