David Howarth – The Desert King

An early biography of Ibn Saud, the founder of modern Saudi Arabia, and the story of the making of the present-day country.

Gives a profile of the ruler, plus wider historical context on the Kingdom and an outlook.

First issued in 1964, this edition is a limited reprint published by Continental Publications in Beirut, probably sometime in the 1970s.

Hardback, bound in green cloth, with jacket showing a portrait of Ibn Saud to front cover and a map of Saudi Arabia to the rear. In very good condition. Clean inside with no writing or marking. 252 pages.