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

Description

First edition, first printing of what remains Thesiger’s best-known book.

A classic of travel literature, the account charts Thesiger’s pioneering journey across the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula in the 1940s.

In very good condition, with original pull-out folding map. Hardback. Unclipped dust jacket, with some spotting to front and rear, but otherwise intact with no major rips. Clean inside with no writing, bookplates or inscriptions.

Published by Longmans in 1959.