Arabian sands /
Wilfred Thesiger.
- New York : Penguin Books, c1991, c1959.
- 347 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
- Penguin travel library .
- Penguin travel library. .
"First published in Great Britain by Longmans, Green 1959. Reprinted with a second preface 1991"--T.p. verso. Includes index.
The author describes his journeys in and around the Empty Quarter desert region of southern Arabia from 1945 to 1950, a period during which much of the area had yet to be seen by a European.