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

First US 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 very good condition. Hardback. Original dust jacket, not price-clipped, with some minor marks and edgewear.

Published by Dutton in New York in 1959.