In their famous six-weeks’ survey of southern Palestine for the Palestine Exploration Fund in 1914, the archaeologists C. Leonard Woolley and T. E. Lawrence covered large tracts of the desert wilderness, studying monuments of numerous periods, from the prehistoric to the Islamic. Their records were first published in 1915. Not only was this work significant as an archaeological and historical record, but it also represented an astonishing feat on the part of Woolley and Lawrence, characteristic of the indefatigable spirit and polymathic interests of so many explorer-scholars in the Levant during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Includes a series of black and white photo plates, as well as a pull out blueprint of the Abda Monastery and various maps throughout.
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Hardback, fairly good condition, no jacket, some fading on cover as well as old library stickers/markings as seen in photos. Inside pages in good condition (bar some library markings). Title on spine is a typo as "Wildness" instead of "Wilderness". Further photos available upon request, please email enquiries@greenhousebooks.co.nz.
Published 1936 by Jonathan Cape. First Edition, reprint.