First edition, limited issue, no. 50 of 160 specially-bound, numbered copies signed by the author. A superbly illustrated record of Thesiger’s travels in Abyssinia, Yemen, Persia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Chitral, dating from his birth in 1910 to 1978, which is prefaced by a ‘Biographical Summary and List of Principal Travels, 1910-78’ and a short-title list of ‘Other Books and Articles by Wilfred Thesiger’. In the foreword to the revised 1993 edition published by Motivate, Thesiger commented that ‘[t]his book has always been a personal favourite, capturing as it does the wide scope of my journeys and my affinity with the nomadic way of life. Journeying at walking pace under conditions of some hardship, I was happiest when I had no communication with the outside world, and was utterly dependent on my tribal companions’. ¶¶

The first edition of Desert Marsh and Mountain was published in two issues: the publisher’s trade edition and this specially bound edition signed by the author. The present signed edition was limited to only 160 copies, of which numbers 151 to 160 were not for sale. ¶¶

P.N. Grover, ‘Bibliography of Works by Sir Wilfred Thesiger’ in Wilfred Thesiger in Africa, p. 271. ¶¶¶

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