Arabian Sands; Illustrated with photographs and maps by Thesiger, Wilfred - 1959

New York.: E P Dutton & Company., 1959. First edition. Stated First Edition.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Top page block dusting; light inside board foxing. Minor edge wear to jacket, DJ white spine minor darkening.. 1 Blue cloth over spine; lighter blue paper over boards. White and gold graphic, front cover, depicting sand formation, echoing jacket photo. White and gold spine titles. Jacket: desert tinted photo; white titles; 326 p. 23 cm. B&W photos. Folded Map, rear. Jacket subtitle: "The remarkable true story of one of the last great adventures of modern times". The author traveled for 5 years exploring with nomad Arabs in the deserts of southern Arabia: the Empty Quarter, and the "forbidden mountains" of interior Oman. The story is richly detailed in portraying the desert Bedu Arabs' way of life, as well as the land itself. Arriving in Arabia in 1945, h8is first task was to survey information for the Locust Control of the Middle East. Author Wilfred Thesiger, b.1910 in Ethiopia, was the son of a British Minister and grew up in Africa, worked with the Sudan Political Service.