Nigel Groom

Auteur de Perfume: The Ultimate Guide to the World's Finest Fragrances

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Born in 1924 and educated at Haileybury and Magdalene College, Cambridge, Nigel Groom joined the Indian Army in 1943 and served in Burma. Recruited in 1946 into the Colonial Administrative Service, he was sent to Aden as a Political Officer in 1948, where his first posting was to Bayhan and is the afficher plus subject of this book (he is pictured above during his time there). There followed service elsewhere in the Protectorate and then in the Aden Secretariat. He married his wife Lorna in Aden in 1952. In 1957 he was transferred to Kenya and was Defence Secretary in the East African High Commission until the East African territories became independent. From 1962 until his retirement in 1984 he worked in the Ministry of Defence in London. He was awarded the OBE in 1974. During his time in Bayhan - ancient Qataban - Nigel Groom discovered and brought to the notice of Western archaeologists many of its pre-Islamic sites and inscriptions, and encouraged Wendell Phillips to mount the well-publicised expedition of the American Foundation for the Study of Man, which studied and excavated them in 1950 and 1951. In 1981 he published Frankincense and Myrrh: A Study of the Arabian Incense Trade, which is now a standard work. He has also published books on perfume and many articles in academic journals on Arabian archaeology afficher moins

Comprend les noms: N. Groom, N. St. J. Groom

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Perfume: The Ultimate Guide to the World's Finest Fragrances (1999) 23 exemplaires

Perfume Handbook (1992) 15 exemplaires

New Perfume Handbook (1997) 11 exemplaires

Frankincense & Myrrh: A Study of the Arabian Incense Trade (1981) 8 exemplaires

The Perfume Companion: A Connoisseur's Guide (Connoisseurs Guide) (1999) 7 exemplaires

Sheba Revealed: A Posting to Bayhan in the Yemen (1707) 5 exemplaires

Perfume - Desde Chanel N 5 Hasta Tresor (Spanish Edition) (2000) 4 exemplaires

Parfum (2000) 1 exemplaire

Parfums. Le guide de référence des senteurs les plus raffinées du monde (2000) 1 exemplaire

A Dictionary of Arabic Topography and Placenames: A Transliterated Arabic-English Dictionary With an Arabic Glossary of… (1983) 1 exemplaire

New Perfume Handbook, 2Nd Edition (2011) 1 exemplaire

Jemen Kunst und Archäologie im Land der Königin von Saba ; eine Ausstellung des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien in… (1998) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire

Průvodce parfémy : příručka pro znalce (2000) 1 exemplaire

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Sheba Revealed: A Posting to Bayhan in the Yemen par N. St J. Groom

The book is slow to acclimatize at first, for you are immediately plopped into the middle of Bayhan, and not brought into the environment gradually. Afterwards, the narrative is very informative and eye opening. Nigel Groom shares his experience as a 23 year old political officer assigned in his first posting in Bayhan in Aden (now part of Yemen) but at that time (1948), part of the British protectorate.

The book is a combination of Groom's tribulations and quarks in the politics of a place that existed 60 years ago, and his continual fascination of a more glorious history 2500 years ago. It is very much worth the reading, I doubt if you will find many more on the topic.… (plus d'informations)