About this title: Rare masterpiece of travel literature and English prose, called by T. E. Lawrence "a great record of adventure and travel (perhaps the greatest in our language.)" Fold-out map.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Date Published: 1964
Description: Softback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition suitable as a reading copy. Ships within 24 hours. Volume 1., 700grams, ISBN: read more
Description: Satisfaction Guaranteed. Shipped quickly. Paperback. Used, very good. Very good overall with light to moderate wear. No dust jacket. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Pubns
Date Published: 1/1/1980
ISBN-13:9780486238258ISBN:0486238253
Description: Very Good. 0486238253 Clean text. SATISF GNTD + SHIPS W/IN 24 HRS. Sorry, no APO deliveries. Ships in a padded envelope with free tracking. 11, 582r. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Heritage Press, New York
Date Published: 1953
Description: LeGrand, Edy. Very good. No dust jacket. 453 p. Includes: illustrations, index. Linen clothbound book, with bedouin/camel illustration on front. Sandglass enclosure. Excellent condition. read more
Edition: Abridged version
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y.
Date Published: 1955
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. 4p., L., 349p. map. 18cm. A Doubleday anchor book, A50.. "Cover and typography by Edward Gorey. " Advertisement: [3]p. at end. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Heritage Press, New York
Date Published: 1953
Description: Edy Legrand. Very Good. No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Very handsome book with no stains or fading. Clean and unmarked with many illustrations. No slipcase. Bookplate on flyleaf. read more
Edition: later ptg
Binding: hardcover
Publisher: Random, NY
Date Published: 1950s
Description: illus, map rear pocket. FAIR ONLY. 674, 696 pp. DAMP-DAMAGED! Covers show damp-stain, front end papers discolored and rippled some. A bit shaken. READING COPY ONLY. No overseas or priority, please: too big and too heavy. Map is actually quite nice, with one small hole at a fold, well away from image area. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: HARDCOVER
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Date Published: 1949
Description: FAIR in FAIR jacket. Reprint, this edition first published in 1936. Pages clean, but slightly worn at edges. Very large fold out colour map at rear. Endpapers foxed. Cover shows slight wear but mainly alright-bumping to head and tail of spine, some wearing of cloth. World of Books makes a contribution to the British Heart Foundation for every book sold. The BHF is the UK's leading heart research charity. read more
Binding: HARDCOVER
Publisher: Cape
Date Published: 1949
Description: GOOD. NO JACKET. Reprint of 1936 two-volume edition. Generally clean pages and firm binding, with pull-out colour map at the back. Slight rubbing to the brown cloth cover. 10" by 8". World of Books makes a contribution to the British Heart Foundation for every book sold. The BHF is the UK's leading heart research charity. read more
Edition: Reprint.
Binding: Paperback.
Publisher: Jonathan Cape., London.
Date Published: 1964
Description: Good+ 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 674pp, 696pp, illus, folding maps. Covers slightly creased, small tear on the front cover of Vol 1. read more
"Often compared to other great works of travel literature, Doughty's Travels in Arabia Deserta is both amazingly comprehensive and insightful and also wonderfully eccentric in both observation and language. Doughty took great risk in his exploration of "fanatic Arabia", and he writes with the passion of an opinated old codger. His style is discursive and sometimes argumentative, and it is solidly in the late Victorian tradition. He is also very funny. T.E. Lawrence, who wrote the Introduction to the 1921 Edition calls the book the greatest work on Arabia in English, and it is clearly a model for The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. The Random House Edition printed in the 1930s is the one to have, since it contains numerous illustrations and maps. In all, a great work."
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