Adventure & Exploration Library of Steve Fossett

2 volumes, 8vo (220 x 140 mm). 3 maps (2 folding), 48 photographic plates. Publisher's green cloth.FIRST EDITION of Philby's valuable account of his journeys on the Arabian peninsula. He was sent to the Arabian Peninsula in 1917 as head of a mission to Ibn Saud, who would eventually become the first monarch and founder of Saudi Arabia. He traveled across the peninsula from Bahrain to Jedda with a party of Ibn Saud's men, becoming the first European to make the east-west journey. By 1921, he was named chief head of the Secret Service in Mandatory Palestine, where he worked with T. E. Lawrence and American Allen Dulles. A FINE COPY.