Edité par The Folio Society, London, 2005
Vendeur : Underground Books, ABAA, Carrollton, GA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". xxix, 327pp.; xv, 213pp. Volumes are bound in pictorial paper over boards with spines backed in brown cloth and lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Bindings are square and sound. Slipcase is clean and undamaged. With map of The Empty Quarter laid in at back of Arabian Sands. ABOUT THIS SET: Between 1945 and 1950 Wilfred Thesiger travelled extensively around the Arabian peninsula, documenting his travels in his journals and taking many photographs of the landscape he traversed and the people he travelled with and met on his journeys.(Publisher).
Hardcover. Etat : As New. Unable to verify date as Folio still sealed - Previously owned but excellent - unread copy. ** 1034g ** All orders are sent with a tracking /signature service for your peace of mind, so that you can keep tabs on your parcel. For overseas customers - on some sites we use, parcels weighing over the standard rate may incur an additional charge and we will then contact you with the additional shipping fee required. This is for the postage only we do not charge you for our time or our excellent packaging, which we are noted for. Dispatched in cardboard mailers within 24/48 Hours Mon - Friday 2pm, except bank holidays, otherwise next business day - excellent service guaranteed. AANBE15047.
Edité par The Folio Society, London 2005 (originally published in 1959 & 1964), 2005
Vendeur : THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australie
24.5 x 17.5cms, 540pp in toto, duotone illusts, fine hardcovers in fine slipcase Thesiger dreaded Western modernity and urban alienation, finding comradeship the Rashid nomads in the Empty Quarter (before there were the new fangled borders of Yemen, Oman & Saudi) and with the boatmen in the marshes of southern Iraq. It seems his 'travels in good company were better than his arrivals'.