Ralph Bagnold was among a group of eccentric British and Empire explorers who took advantage of the lack of manned borders in the 1930s to explore the deserts of North Africa using battered Model T Fords. This book describes his journeys into the region known as the Western Desert of Egypt or the Libyan Sahara. He is a central character in the group of explorers who would be later fictionalised in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. Libyan Sands is unmistakably the world of an Englishman, a modest, machine and desert loving young officer whose passionate amateur enthusiasm led to ground-breaking exploration of the Egyptian western desert and the Libyan Sahara on the eve of the Second World War.
By:
R A Bagnold Imprint: Eland Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 214mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 17mm
Weight: 290g ISBN:9781906011338 ISBN 10: 1906011338 Pages: 228 Publication Date:01 January 2011 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active