Arabian sands.London etc., Longmans, Green and Co., 1959. Large 8vo. With 49 plates, 8 maps in the text and a loose folding map in a separate pocket on the back pastedown. Light cloth with author, title and publisher in gold lettering on spine.
by THESIGER, Wilfred
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XVI, 326 pp.First edition of the authors first publication in book form. A classic of travel literature, the book recounts Thesigers travels across the Rub al Khali (Empty Quarter) of the southern Arabian Peninsula between 1945 and 1950. Thesigers narrative captures the lives of the Bedouins and other inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula.Signed by the author on the title-page: Wilfred Thesiger / November 1996. Includes a letter of attestation from Motivate Publishing, to the Dutch traveller Ruud Verkerk, from whose collection the volume was acquired. Dust jacket slightly soiled; very slight foxing on the edges. In excellent condition.l Howgego III, T14, p. 931.
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- Arabian sands.London etc., Longmans, Green and Co., 1959. Large 8vo. With 49 plates, 8 maps in the text and a loose folding map in a separate pocket on the back pastedown. Light cloth with author, title and publisher in gold lettering on spine.
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- THESIGER, Wilfred
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