PHILBY, Harry St. John B.
The Empty Quarter being a description of the Great South Desert of Arabia known as Rub' al Khali.
London, Constable & Company, 1933.
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'Philby made a series of remarkable journeys, of which the greatest was his crossing of the 'Empty Quarter' in 1932. On these journeys he travelled by camel and later by car. By day he collected place names, temperatures, compass bearings, barometric pressures, rocks, fossils, flora and fauna, and ancient inscriptions. At night he wrote them up in his diaries, squatting in the sand by lamplight and hiding his work from his suspicious Arab escort' (ODNB).
First edition; 8vo (22.5 x 14.5 cm); illustrated with 32 photographic plates, 3 folding maps; full tan calf, spine gilt, all edges gilt, a fine copy; xxiv, 433 pp.
First edition; 8vo (22.5 x 14.5 cm); illustrated with 32 photographic plates, 3 folding maps; full tan calf, spine gilt, all edges gilt, a fine copy; xxiv, 433 pp.
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The Empty Quarter
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