{"product_id":"arabian-adventure-douglas-carruthers-s-oryx-expedition-inscribed-by-the-author","title":"Arabian Adventure - Douglas Carruthers’s Oryx Expedition, Inscribed by the Author","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"111\" data-end=\"230\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCARRUTHERS, Douglas. Arabian Adventure: To the Great Nafud in Quest of the Oryx. London: H. F. \u0026amp; G. Witherby, 1935.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"232\" data-end=\"437\"\u003eFirst edition, first impression. Original rust cloth, lettered in white to spine. With thirty-three photographic plates and two maps, including the folding map of the Shararāt Wilderness and Western Nafud.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"439\" data-end=\"481\"\u003eInscribed by the author on the half-title:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"483\" data-end=\"560\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"483\" data-end=\"560\"\u003eRosemary Portal\u003cbr data-start=\"500\" data-end=\"503\"\u003efrom\u003cbr data-start=\"507\" data-end=\"510\"\u003ethe author\u003cbr data-start=\"520\" data-end=\"523\"\u003eDouglas Carruthers\u003cbr data-start=\"541\" data-end=\"544\"\u003eChristmas 1936\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"562\" data-end=\"777\"\u003eA distinguished presentation copy of Carruthers’s account of Arabian exploration, from the collection of Rosemary Portal, daughter of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"779\" data-end=\"1246\"\u003eCarruthers was one of the great British traveller-naturalists of the early twentieth century, combining field exploration, zoology and geography. Here he records his journey into the Great Nafud in pursuit of the Arabian oryx, but the book is far more than a sporting or natural history narrative. It is also a study of desert travel, Bedouin life, the geography of northern Arabia and the mapping of one of the most difficult regions then known to British explorers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1248\" data-end=\"1680\"\u003eThe T. E. Lawrence connection is particularly strong. In the preface Carruthers thanks “Col. T. E. Lawrence” for his co-operation over many years in answering geographical questions, specifically to improve the poor maps of the Shararāt Wilderness. He also adds a postscript recording Lawrence’s death before publication and noting that quotations from Lawrence’s writings and letters were used with the permission of his executors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1682\" data-end=\"1933\"\u003eA handsome and evocative copy, linking Arabian exploration, Lawrence’s desert geography and the Portal family. Some light spotting and minor signs of age internally, but a very attractive example of a scarce and highly collectable Arabian travel work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CARRUTHERS, Douglas.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53230922006795,"sku":null,"price":400.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0794\/7848\/9355\/files\/20260709_090253619_iOS.jpg?v=1783593025","url":"https:\/\/www.archbooks.co.uk\/products\/arabian-adventure-douglas-carruthers-s-oryx-expedition-inscribed-by-the-author","provider":"Arch Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}