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In the Shadow of the Crescent
by J. Alston Campbell, F.R.G.S.,
published by Marshall Brothers, London ( with penned location above publisher on title page),1906. INSCRIBED by the author on front endpaper. Cloth hardcover Ex library with numbers lower spine and copyright page; bottom of page. Joseph M. Gleason ( was a Californian Catholic priest, educationalist, historian and collector of books and photographs) personalized bookplate inside cover; else good + binding tight interior clean with photographs all present; 240 pages. RARE book.
A travel account of Asiatic Turkey, focused especially on Armenian communities. Campbell traveled with a strong missionary and humanitarian concern, seeking to understand the suffering and conditions of Armenians and other Christian populations under the Ottoman Empire. Written less than a decade before the Armenian genocide of 1915, the book offers a contemporary Western account of Armenian life and communities before their subsequent destruction and displacement.
