Arabian Sands
by Thesiger, Wilfred
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Blue cloth and boards. Near fine in good yellow pictorial dust-jacket (unclipped, top of spine panel chipped, spine panel sunned
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About This Item
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1959. First American edition. Illustrated with photographs and maps (one fold-out at the end). xvi, 326pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth and boards. Near fine in good yellow pictorial dust-jacket (unclipped, top of spine panel chipped, spine panel sunned and rubbed with loss to lettering). First American edition. Illustrated with photographs and maps (one fold-out at the end). xvi, 326pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Arabian Sands is Thesiger's first and most important work, recounting his crossing of the Empty Quarter under the aegis of the Middle East Anti-Locust Unit in 1946-7. Although brief reports of the journey were published in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society in the late 1940s, it was only through the efforts of his friend Graham Watson and the publisher Mark Longman that Thesiger was persuaded to write a book-length account.
Synopsis
"First published in Great Britain by Longmans, Green 1959, first published in the United States of America by E.P. Dutton 1959"--T.p. verso. "Reprinted with a second preface 1991"--T.p. verso. Includes index. "Gift, April 2007"
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- Seller
- The Old Mill Bookshop (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 305596
- Title
- Arabian Sands
- Author
- Thesiger, Wilfred
- Format/Binding
- Illustrated with photographs and maps (one fold-out at the end). xvi, 326pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Blue cloth and boards. Near fine in good yellow pictorial dust-jacket (unclipped, top of spine panel chipped, spine panel sunned
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Middle East
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