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HASSANEIN BEY The Egyptian explorer, in Bedouin clothes starting on his trek of twenty-two hundred miles across the desert

THE LOST OASES

BY A. M. HASSANEIN BEY, F.R.G.S.

BEING A NARRATIVE ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR’S EXPLORATIONS INTO THE MORE REMOTE PARTS OF THE LIBYAN DESERT AND HIS REDISCOVERY OF TWO LOST OASES

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR JAMES RENNELL RODD, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O. ILLUSTRATED WITH AN ORIGINAL MAP, AND FROM MANY PHOTOGRAPHS MADE BY THE AUTHOR

PUBLISHED BY THE CENTURY CO. NEW YORK AND LONDON

Copyright, 1925, by The Century Co.

PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.

IN HOMAGE AND GRATITUDE TO HIS MAJESTY KING FOUAD I WHO BY HIS HELP AND ENCOURAGEMENT MADE THIS JOURNEY POSSIBLE