Lady Anne Blunt; A Biography

London: Barzan Publishing 1900988577 [1900988577] 2003. (Hardcover) 381pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers, black & white and color illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. There is a previous owner's name in ink on the front free endpaper. "Lady Anne Blunt, granddaughter of Byron, was the first Western woman to make a recorded journey to Central Arabia and the first to enter the citadel of Hail, home of the ruling house of Ibn Rashid. She rescued the pure strain of the Arab horse from near oblivion, set up the famous Crabbet stud in England, and translated the verse of some of the timeless pre-Islamic Arabian writers.... Winstone draws extensively from her unpublished diaries and letters, to produce a poignant and illuminating portrait of a talented, determined and visionary woman". Biography of Anne Blunt. Letters of Anne Blunt. Time Period 19th Century. Locale: ; Algeria; Arabia; Egypt; Syria. (Biography, Horse Breeding, Travel, Women Writers).