Arabian Sands

A spectacular materpiece, Arabian Sands by Sir Wilfred Thesiger describes the journeys he made from 1945 to 1950 in and around the Empty Quarter, the half-million square miles of one of the cruellest deserts in the world. Before him, no other traveller, apart from the Bedu who lived there, had dared to cross those empty wastes more than once. Thesiger’s experience and knowledge of the Arabian Sands, its people, its tribal warfare and ancient history, its daily life and landscape, are unique and will remain so, for the world he describes has since altered beyond recognition. This is the Centenary edition, with a pull-out 1940 National Geographic Map and 80 never-seen-before photographs. Hardback format, 312 pages.