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Libyan sands : travel in a dead world / Ralph A. Bagnold.

Title
Libyan sands : travel in a dead world / Ralph A. Bagnold.
Author
Bagnold, Ralph A. (Ralph Alger), 1896-
Publication
London : Eland, 2010.

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Description
228 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.
Summary
Libyan Sands is unmistakably the work of an Englishman, a modest, machine- and desert-loving young officer whose passionate amateur enthusiasm led to the exploration of the Egyptian western desert and the Libyan Sahara on the eve of the second world war.
Subjects
Note
  • Previously published: London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1935.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Travel infants -- Petra -- Sinai again -- Siwa -- Darb el Arba' in -- Ain Dalla: Failure and discovery -- Sand sea -- Great desert -- Six thousand miles -- Six thousand miles (cont'nd) -- Zerzura, the Wish-Oasis.
ISBN
  • 9781906011338 (pbk.)
  • 1906011338 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 698224433
  • SCSB-12720227
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library