As an example of stolid British tradition, language, and colonial attitudes in a non-British land, this history can scarcely be surpassed. Nonetheless, it is also a vivid and detailed account of the people and geography of what was then called Iraq Kurdistan, where Hamilton (an engineer from New Zealand) spent four years building what is known as the Hamilton Road, from 1928-1932. Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave.