1925 The Lost Oases

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Signed, Signed Binding

The first edition.

Signed by the author to the recto of the front free endpaper, dated Feb. 16th 1926.

Bound by Zaehnsdorf.

Ahmed Hassanein's travelogue records his expedition across the Libyan desert, whereupon he discovered two previously unknown water sources, the "lost oases" of Jebel Uweinat and Jebel Arkenu. 

Illustrated with a frontispiece, one map, and twenty-three plates. Collated, complete.

Hassanein was primarily a diplomat and geographic explorer, but lived a varied life that involved fencing in the 1924 summer Olympics, and tutoring Farouk, the king of Egypt from 1936 to 1952.

With an introduction by Sir Rennell Rodd.

Newspaper clipping, a review of this work, tipped-in to the recto of the rear free endpaper.