On the Road to Bagdad
by F. S. Brereton
Publisher: Blackie & Son Ltd. 1917
ISBN/ASIN: B00DR11ZYY
Number of pages: 408
Description:
Major Joseph Douglas could not fail to see that danger, perhaps death, lay before him in those deserts. Yet he took ship for the Persian Gulf without hesitation, and, having landed at the township of Basra, disappeared entirely.
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