Travels in Arabia Deserta

First published in 1888, this is Doughty's two-volume narrative of years spent wandering in northern and central Arabia in the 1870s, living among Bedouin camps and oasis towns as a Christian stranger. He records wells, caravans, tribal hospitality and suspicion, the Hajj routes, and the ruined stone of older peoples, in a deliberately archaic English. Hunger, thirst, and the daily bargain for protection are constant. The book is a first-person travel ethnography of the desert, not a military history of Arabia and not a guidebook for later travellers.

Half bound in brown leather with hand marbled paper sides by Jemma Lewis and leather corners, ribbon marker, 52 pages of duotone plates. Mapcase bound in brown buckram with segmentally folded cloth mounted map and limitation colophon. Brown buckram slipcase with leather label.