1932 Arabia Felix Across the Empty Quarter of Arabia

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, 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, forty-seven plates, and two maps.

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 T. E. Lawrence.

With an appendix by Sir Arthur Keith.