Revolt in the desert / by ʻT. E. Lawrence.ʼ.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888-1935

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Arabian Peninsula.

World War, 1914-1918.

Arabs.

Arabian Peninsula--Social life and customs.

Arabian Peninsula.

Manners and customs.

Penn Provenance:

Wilder, Clinton Eugene (autograph) (bookplate) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 335 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, folding map, portraits. ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : George H. Doran Company, MCMXXVII [1927]

Contents:

Storrs goes to Jiddah

Riding up to Feisal

Feisal and his levies

Checks around Yenbo

Feisal strikes north

Tactics and politics

Setting out for Syria

The veritable desert

Feasts of the tribes

Nomads and nomad life

Fighting to the sea

Akaba, Suez, Allenby

Reforming ourselves

Pricking the enemy

Mines in the railway

Victory and loot

Making up our minds

Across the line again

Services and sermons

Racing to the bridge

To catch a train

Return to the world

Fighting for Tafileh

Winter shuts us down

The siege of Maan

Dawnay attacks Shahm

Transport and supply

Buxton and the I.C.C.

Washing our linen

In the advance guard

We cut the main lines

Fighting up and down

Royal air force help

The Turks crumple up

Joining the British

Entry into Damascus

Jerry-cabinet-making.

Notes:

Illustrated endpapers.

"First printing in America, March 1927."

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has bookplate and autograph of Clinton Eugene Wilder, Jr.

OCLC:

394658