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Arabian sands / Wilfred Thesiger.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thesiger, Wilfred, 1910-2003.
- Series:
- Penguin travel library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thesiger, Wilfred, 1910-2003.
- Travel.
- Arabian Peninsula--Description and travel.
- Arabian Peninsula.
- Thesiger, Wilfred, 1910-2003--Travel--Arabian Peninsula.
- Thesiger, Wilfred.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1, 2 & 3)
- Physical Description:
- 347 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y., U.S. : Penguin Books, 1991.
- Summary:
- Story of five years of travel with the nomad Arabs in the unknown deserts of southern Arabia.
- Contents:
- Abyssinia and the Sudan
- Prelude in Dhaufar
- The sands of Ghanim
- Secret preparations at Salala
- The approach to the Empty Quarter
- On the edge of the Empty Quarter
- The first crossing of the Empty Quarter
- Return to Salala to Mukalla
- Preparations for a second crossing
- The second crossing of the Empty Quarter
- From Sulaiyil to Abu Dhabi
- The Trucial coast
- A holiday in Buraimi
- The quicksands of Umm al Samim
- The Wahiba sands
- The closing door.
- Notes:
- "First published in Great Britain by Longmans, Green 1959, first published in the United States of America by E.P. Dutton 1959"--T.p. verso.
- "Reprinted with a second preface 1991"--T.p. verso.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0140095144
- 9780140095142
- OCLC:
- 31270090
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