1932 Arabia Felix: Across the Empty Quarter of Arabia

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First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition, second impression of this work, reprinted in the same year as the first impression. Illustrated with a frontispiece, one folding map, one folding plate, forty-seven plates, and many in-text illustrations. Collated complete. An immersive travel work on Saudi Arabia, noting the author's experiences travelling through the country. This work recounts the author's journey as he became the first documented Westerner to cross the Rub' al Khali. The Rub' al Khali is a large sand desert which encompasses most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula. Written by Bertram Thomas, an English diplomat and explorer. With a foreword by Thomas Edward Lawrence, a British Army officer, archaeologist, diplomat and writer known for his role during the Arab Revolt and Sinai and Palestine campaign. His activities associations, and ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia. An appendix by Sir Arthur Keith, a British anatomist and anthropologist.