ARABIAN SANDS

Thesiger, Wilfred

ISBN 10: 1873544758 / ISBN 13: 9781873544754

Published by UAE, Motivate Publishing, 2000 reprint edition. [, 1998

About this Item

] Hardback, octavo, appx 6 1/2 x 9 5/8 inches (16.5 x 24.75 cm), 306 pages, Near Fine in Near Fine dj (dj now in protective mylar). Just about flawless both book and dustjacket incl no names, no writing. Orig publ 1959, this edition incl author's 1994 Preface. Printed in b&w throughout on quality coated stock including a few maps + numerous b&w photos on glossy stock (frontis & three 16-pg sections not in the numbering system). At the rear: short list of Arabic and Botanical Names of Plants Mentioned, 3-pg List of the Chief Characters & lengthy Index. RWR5 World History Mideast Travel Exploration Desert Nomads Photography. Seller Inventory # 07057

Bibliographic Details

Title: ARABIAN SANDS

Publisher: UAE, Motivate Publishing, 2000 reprint edition. [

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

About this title

Synopsis:

The book focuses on the author's travels across the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula between 1945 and 1950. It attempted to capture the lives of the Bedu people and other inhabitants of the Arabian peninsula.

About the Author:

Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003) was a British explorer and travel writer. He was born at Addis Ababa, Abyssinia (now Ethiopia). Educated at Eton and Oxford, he worked in the Sudan Political Service and and later, for a year, as a Political Officer for the Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie. He is best known for two travel books: Arabian Sands (1959) and The Marsh Arabs (1964).
 
Rory Stewart (introducer) has written for the New York Times Magazine, Granta, and the London Review of Books, and is the author of The Places In Between and The Prince of the Marshes. A former fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire by the British government for services in Iraq.