"Published October, 1902" stated on copyright page; Donovan Pasha and Some People of Egypt; Gilbert Parker; book in very good condition with unmarked pages; blue boards with gilt lettering and design; D. Appleton & Company publishers.
 
dedicated to Sir John Rogers.
from Foreword -
"It is now twelve years since I began giving to the public tales of life in lands well known to me.  The first of them were drawn from Australia and the Islands of the Southern Pacific, where I had lived and roamed int he middle and late Eighties. They appeared in various English magazines, and were written in London, far from the scenes which suggested them.  None of them were written on the spot, as it were.  I did not thin then, and I do not think now, that this was perilous to their thruthfulness..