8vo. xvi, 771 pp., 64 b/w photographs, 2 diagrams, 2 maps (1 folding, although listed 3 maps, only 2 were printed in this edition), cloth, lightly rubbed and soiled at spine, appendices, index, minor damage to front endpaper at inner, otherwise copy clean & in very good condition, a reprint of the 1952 edition published by Ithaca for the Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C., / Cornell University Press, Da Capo Press, New York, 1976.

Synopsis

Until the 1930s the highlands of the south-west corner of Saudi Arabia were among the world’s few remaining lands not fully explored or charted. Into this region H. St. J. B. Philby, author and explorer, made two journeys; the first in 1932 and the other in 1936 and 1937. Arabian Highlands is his travel record of what he saw and what his everyday experiences were.