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'Handbook of Yemen' [7v] (19/190)
The record is made up of 1 volume (91 folios). It was created in 1917. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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n._pHYSICAL CHARACTER.
Relief.
Yemen is the south-western angle and culmination of the
tilted land-shelf which makes Arabia. This shelf slopes up
from north-east till it attains, on the San a plateau, a general
elevation of over 7,000 feet, and, in masse ®. ^
the southern extremity of the Mam Gable Ridge, whic
defines the whole shelf on the west, summit heights ot
over 9 000 feet. From these the land falls steeply on botli
faces of the angle to the sea. Therefore, not only the Red
Sea slope, but that to the Indian Ocean is geographically
part of Yemen; but since the latter is politically distinct,
and has a special interest for us as the Aden Protectorate,
it is not included in this Handbook. _
The longitudinal zones of Hejaz and Asir are con
tinued in Yemen. These are (1) Tihamah, or low littoral
belt; (2) Maritime Range ; (3) Intramontane uplands;
(4) Main Ridge ; (5) Plateau, sloping away north-eastward
towards the great central desert. The last has a less even
decline than in Asir and Hejaz, being at first a table-land
which breaks down rather abruptly amid low ridges and
foothills, enclosing habitable basins without outlets (such
as those of Mareb and Jauf), before it merges into the
Ruba' el-Khali.
(1) The Tihamah resembles that of Asir in character,
having a comparatively regular, low, and coralline coast-line,
behind which rises a long, dusty, and even slope, attaining
about 600 feet at the base of the Maritime Range. But it
is less uniformly barren. The incidence of the monsoon,
and the large "catchment area provided by the complex
highland system behind it, cause this Tihamah to hold more
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The volume is Handbook of Yemen. Prepared by the Arab Bureau, Cairo , 1st edn, 15 January 1917 (Cairo: Government Press, 1917).
The handbook contains information about Yemen under the following headings:
- Area;
- Physical Character (including Relief and Climate);
- Population;
- Districts and Towns;
- Agriculture and Industries;
- Trade (including Currency, and Weights and Measures);
- Political;
- Yemen Army Corps;
- Tribal Notes;
- Personalities;
- Communications;
- Routes.
The prefatory note states that the handbook had been compiled by Major K Cornwallis and Lieutenant-Commander D G Hogarth, RNVR from information obtained in Cairo (especially about tribes and personalities) and from material prepared for the Arabia Handbook issued by the Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division.
The volume contains an 'Outline Map of Yemen' (f 6).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (91 folios)
- Arrangement
There is a list of contents at the front of the volume (f 5).
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 93 on the inside back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. This is the system used to determine the sequence of pages within the volume.
Pagination: the volume also has an original printed pagination sequence numbered 2-167 (ff 7-92).
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- Title
- 'Handbook of Yemen'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:5v, 7r:92v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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