Rawlinson A., "Adventures in the Near East 1918-22", London, 1924. First edition. 8vo, (23x15cm), pp.xx,375. Contemporary cloth, spine darkened, text clean. Complete, including several maps and plates. A very good copy of an interesting travel account. Rawlinson, a British officer has been sent in several missions in the Near East during 1918-1922. He was firstly sent to Transcaucasia in early 1918, in a futile attempt to avoid the conquest of Baku by the Turkish army, where he was an eyewitness of several crimes against local population. In 1919 he was sent to Erzerum, in Anatolia, to supervise Turkish demilitarization. He was an eyewitness of the birth of the Kemalist movement and of the final ethnic cleansing of Pontos and Armenia. He finally escaped through the Pontic Alps and Trebizond to Constantinople.