[SOLD] Wilfred Thesiger – Arabian Sands – First Edition 1959

First edition, first printing of Wilfred Thesiger’s best-known book and an all-time classic piece of travel literature.

It charts Thesiger’s pioneering journey across the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula in the late 1940s, mostly in the present-day UAE, with dozens of stunning B&W photographs of people and places.

Also features a colour pull-out folding map in the rear pocket, showing the various journeys Thesiger undertook in the period.

In good condition. Hardback. Original dust jacket, price-clipped, with some minor marks and edgewear. Clean inside with no writing or bookplates. Bright contents with none of the usual internal spotting/foxing often found on this title.

Published by Longmans in 1959 in London.