The Heart of Arabia. A Record of Travel and Exploration. TWO VOLUMES.

The Heart of Arabia. A Record of Travel and Exploration. TWO VOLUMES.

£1,800
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The Heart of Arabia. A Record of Travel and Exploration. TWO VOLUMES.
  • The Heart of Arabia. A Record of Travel and Exploration. TWO VOLUMES.
  • The Heart of Arabia. A Record of Travel and Exploration. TWO VOLUMES.
The Heart of Arabia. A Record of Travel and Exploration. TWO VOLUMES.

The Heart of Arabia. A Record of Travel and Exploration. TWO VOLUMES.

£1,800

ID #9807

Philby, Harry St. John Bridger 1885-1960.

8vo. Volume I: xxiii 386 pp., frontispiece portrait of Emir Faisal Ibn Saud, 1 plan, 93 b/w photographic plates / Volume II: vii, 354 pp., 8 b/w plates, 2 folding maps, half-titles, contemporary green cloth, slightly rubbed, occasional foxing mainly to endpapers & outer edges, otherwise set in very good condition, Constable & Co., London, first edition, 1922.

Harry St John Bridger Philby CIE (1885-1960), also known as Jack Philby or Sheikh Abdullah, was an Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence officer.
"Of the pleasant year I spent sojourning and wandering amid the deserts and cases of Arabia I have endeavoured to compile a record, at once fully descriptive of my own experiences and designed to serve my successors as a faithful guide in their wanderings, when in their turn they take up the torch which has been held in the past by so many distinguished hands--Niebuhr and Burckhardt, Sadlier and Burton, Doughty and the Blunts, Wallin and Wellsted, Huber and Halevy, Euting and Guarmani, and, in modern times, Shakespear and Gertrude Bell, to name but a few of those whose names are writ large on the scroll of Arabian explorers".

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