Soudan

1934 · réf. 62094 — London: Hodder & Stoughton 1934. Tall 8vo. xv 1 220 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates text illustrations maps plates. Blue publisher’s cloth blue lettering on spine minor shelfwear slight bumping to couple corners w/ d.j. cover art photo by Annette Mason minor chipping edgewear some age toning a few old tape repairs to verso still VG/VG- copy. First edition stated of this travel memoir by a British explorer and his wife across British Sudan in the early 1930’s by camel motor truck and automobile. Two years later in 1936 Mason would publish a further account of exploring the Libyan Desert in 1935 by automobile as “The Paradise of Fools: Being an Account. . .of the Expedition which covered 6300 miles. . .” Uncommon in original dustjacket. Zsolt G. Toroc The “English” Patient Fools Foxes and Rats: Exploration Mapping and War in the Libyan Desert Symposium on Shifting Boundaries; Cartography in the 19th and 20th Centuries Sept. 2008. Hodder & Stoughton, hardcover