The Arabs.
by THOMAS, Bertram
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
London, Thornton Butterworth, 1937. . First edition; 8vo, 372 pp, frontispiece portrait, 15 plates and several illustrations, 4 maps (one folding), original brown cloth, original pictorial dustwrapper (lightly toned, small chips), a very good copy.
Bertram Thomas's (1892-1950) 'first crossing of the Empty Quarter, albeit by the shortest and easiest route, assured him a permanent place in the history of European exploration of Arabia. He was admired by T. E. Lawrence (who wrote a preface to one of his books) and by his successor Wilfred Thesiger, who found twenty years later that Thomas was remembered by the Bedouin as an honourable, brave, and tolerant man' (ODNB).
Bertram Thomas's (1892-1950) 'first crossing of the Empty Quarter, albeit by the shortest and easiest route, assured him a permanent place in the history of European exploration of Arabia. He was admired by T. E. Lawrence (who wrote a preface to one of his books) and by his successor Wilfred Thesiger, who found twenty years later that Thomas was remembered by the Bedouin as an honourable, brave, and tolerant man' (ODNB).
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- Shapero Rare Books (GB)
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- Title
- The Arabs.
- Author
- THOMAS, Bertram
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Thornton Butterworth, 1937.
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