Sultans Came to Tea

This is a vivacious and revealing record of the experiences of a young wife of a newly appointed Chief Magistrate in Aden in which June Knox-Mawer gives a picture of life in the English colony of the Protectorate. The more unusual aspect of her book is her friendship with two of the sultans and with the congenial, middle-aged Farid who acted as unofficial A.D.C. to both of them. She was the friend and companion of the Sultans, rode and shot with them in their territories bordering on the Yemen and was able to enter their harems and meet their families.