THE LANDS OF BARBARY

 Geoffrey Furlonge

 John Murray 1^st, 1966

 HB. Crown 8to, 227 pages.

 In North Africa, between the Sahara and the Mediterranean, four new States have come into being during the past fifteen years (up to publication), Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. Together they form what the Arabs call ‘the Maghrib’ and Sir Geoffrey Furlonge calls ‘the Lands of Barbary’: lands of great beauty and sharp contrasts, between heat and cold, fertility and desert, poverty and riches, populated by a fusion of two distinct races, the Arabs, of whose origins we know much, and the Berbers, of whose origins we know almost nothing.

 This is the opening paragraph of the sleeve notes of this book. Sir Geoffrey began his association with the area as a Foreign Office posting over forty years previously.

 Apart from a couple of 4mm splits and a crease at the top of the dust jacket spine, and miniscule shelf wear, mainly to the top of the jacket, and some pencilled prices on the inside front cover, the book is in very good condition. The pages are clean and tightly bound.