Tales from the late 19th and early 20th centuries about the activities and travels of the American mission in the Gulf region, as well as in Iraq and Yemen, which combined missionary, medical, cultural, educational, and humanitarian work. It includes beautiful and rare photographs of the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula, published for the first time, and reveals many hidden aspects and unknown issues concerning the region's history and events from 1892 until the mid-1920s. In this book, Bahraini writer Khalid Al-Bassam resumes the work he began by publishing a series of books on the region's history, employing a new style and writing approach.