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Sand Dance: By Camel Across Arabia's Great Southern Desert
by Kirkby, Bruce
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0771095643
- ISBN 13
- 9780771095641
- Seller
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About This Item
Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 2000, hardcover, xvi-223 pp, First Edition, First Printing by numberline, Very Near Fine in Fine dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slightest of corner bumps. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price. The true story of the 40 day, 1200 kilometer, Empty Quarter Traverse across Arabia, replicating the original 1947 crossing by Sir Wilfred Thesiger, who provides the foreword for this book. Illustrated throughout with the author's breathtaking color plates and a route map. Appended: Glossary, Selected Bibliography. ISBN 9780771095641
Synopsis
Bruce Kirkby has pursued a life of adventure, undertaking major expeditions to remote locations around the globe. After graduating in Engineering Physics from Queen’s University, Bruce had a brief (six-month) office career, before his love of the wilderness and a craving for physical challenge tore him away. A professional guide, Bruce has spent much of the last ten years in arduous environments, leading whitewater rafting and canoe expeditions on remote northern rivers (including the Tatshenshini, Nahanni, Firth, and Burnside), jungle explorations in the Central American rainforest, and sea-kayak voyages along Belize’s barrier reef. As a mountaineer Bruce has climbed throughout Canada and around the world, twice reaching the summit of Mt. McKinley (North America’s highest peak), and he was a member of the 1997 Canadian Mt. Everest Expedition. Three of Bruce’s journeys have been featured in National Geographic video documentaries, including a raft descent of Ethiopia’s legendary Blue Nile Gorge. His photographs have been featured in Outside magazine, American Photo , Maclean’s , Explore , and Men’s Fitness . While not in the field, Bruce lives in Calgary, where he is currently organizing a one-hundred-day foot journey across Tibet’s remote Chang Tang Plateau.
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- Bookseller
- West of Eden Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7804
- Title
- Sand Dance: By Camel Across Arabia's Great Southern Desert
- Author
- Kirkby, Bruce
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing by numberline
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0771095643
- ISBN 13
- 9780771095641
- Publisher
- Mcclelland & Stewart, Toronto, Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, On, Canada
- This edition first published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Adventure; Asia; Asian; Expeditions & Discoveries; General; History; Special Interest; Travel
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