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KEPPEL (Hon. Arnold [Joost William])
Gun-Running & the North-West Frontier.
1st Ed., xiv+214pp., photo. frontis., 23 other photos., tp vignette (Fort Jellali, Muscat), 2 fldg. sketch maps (NWF/Persian Mekran & Biyabai [latter showing route of Mekran Field Force from Galag to Bint), fldg, schematic (The Frontier Fingerpost - a 'handy' diagram of the NWF & its tribal areas). John Murray.
1911
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Keppel (1884-1964) went to India as a young & aspiring journalist in 1910 when he was aged 26, possibly with the patronage of his distant relative Sir George Roos-Keppel who was then Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier & Agent to the Governor-General, to whom the book is dedicated. He went in search of a story, it is said, alive to the dangers of Persian Gulf gun-runners (the trade was the centre of this arms trade) arming dissident tribes on the Frontier. As a background to his travels he provides an account of the Zhakka Khel & Mohmand Expeditions of 1908 & of recent Gulf history. He spent some time on the NWF & was then appointed special correspondent to The Times covering the operations of the Mekran (or Makran) Field Force in 1911. This was an anti-gun-running naval expedition to the Mekran coast of the Gulf of Oman, where elements of the Poona Division of the Indian Army marched inland from Galag to Bint in (some 65 miles) in pursuance of the expedition's aims. Keppel describes events, scenes & people he encountered. Note: Following the events described in this work Keppel was hon. attache in Bucharest & Teheran, Times correspondent in Teheran 1912-1914, served with the RFC/RAF in WW1 & later dabbled in in British politics, at one time standing as a Labour parliamentary candidate. Orig. green cloth, gilt, somewhat worn, sound, with trace of old bookplate & gilt block to front of Vernon House, Brondsbury. See illustration on our website.
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