Arabian Sands, first published in 1959, is a classic of travel literature by explorer and travel writer Wilfred Thesiger. The book describes the author's travels across the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula between 1945 and 1950. It attempted to capture the lives of the Bedu people and other inhabitants of the Arabian peninsula. The author reflects on the changes and large scale development that took place after the Second World War and the subsequent gradual erosion of traditional Bedouin ways of life that had previously existed unaltered for thousands of years.

One of Thesiger's biographers, Michael Asher, said "... Arabian Sands was probably the finest book ever written about Arabia and a tribute to a world now lost forever". The critic Michael Dirda described the book as "'the austere masterpiece" and "one of the half dozen greatest works of modern English travel writing".
Dimensions:160 x 244
Author: W. Thesiger
ISBN: 9781873544754
Format: Hardcover
Pages 306