The Wilderness of Zin.

WOOLLEY, C. Leonard and T. E. Lawrence.

$125.00

Item Number: 124354

London: Stacey International, 2003.

Revised edition of the authors comprehensive account of their daring 1914 military mapping expedition in southern Palestine. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Preface by Jonathan Tubb. Introduction by T. Sam N. Moorehead. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

The Wilderness of Zin, first published as the Annual of the Palestine Exploration Fund for 1914/15, describes an incredible archeological survey carried out as cover for a British military mapping operation in southern Palestine just before the outbreak of World War One. The most comprehensive account of the region at the time, it is still a most important work ninety years later. "Admirers of T. E. Lawrence will find it a valuable addition to the ana of that strange and impressive personage" (The Montreal Gazette). "A brilliant record of hazardous adventure" (New York Sun).