Based on the Travellers in Arabia Exhibition held at the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in September 2004, this is an attractive, large format, photographic book, casebound and jacketed.

Presented chronologically by traveller, each chapter opens with a map showing the route covered by that traveller, their portrait and a brief biography.

The photographers, as featured in the Exhibition, are:

Bertram Thomas
Captain William Shakespear
T E Lawrence
Wilfred Thesiger
Harry St John Philby
Gertrude Bell
Gerard Leachman
Major A L Holt
Sir George Rendel
Gerald de Gaury
Major R E Cheesman

Also included:

Excerpts from the writings of William Gifford Palgrave and Charles Doughty

Watercolour images by Lady Anne Blunt

Approximately 110 photographs

Approximately 50,000 words

10 maps covering the journeys

An introductory essay, putting the work in context, which draws on the lectures given during the Exhibition by:

Leslie McLoughlin; H V F Winstone and the late St John Armitage

The captions and commentaries that accompany the pictures have been extensively researched by Eid Al-Yahya, and checked by three recognised independent experts in the field.