Mysterious Sahara: The Land of Gold, of Sand, and of Ruin

de Prorok, Byron Khun

Verlag: Reilly & Lee, Chicago, 1929

Beschreibung

Inspired by polar explorers Amundsen & Shackleton, de Prorok mounted several expeditions (this one using motor cars) to North Africa in the 1920s, though his methods & results are doubted by modern scholars. Here he discusses dead explorers of the Sahara, the discovery & looting of the tomb of Tuareg queen Tin Hinan, dead cities & a 'temple' deeper in the desert. Hardcover, as pictured. General wear, spine badly faded, no jacket, pencil name on half-title; some pages crudely opened, with tears & chips - some loss of text noted to p. 115, a few, mostly in the index, remain unopened. Text clean; xx, 348 pages; index, brief bibliography, color frontispiece, 40 b/w photo plates as called for, folding map, map endsheets. Size: Octavo. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers w0455

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Mysterious Sahara: The Land of Gold, of Sand...

Verlag: Reilly & Lee, Chicago

Erscheinungsdatum: 1929

Einband: Hard Cover

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Auflage: First Edition.