Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1937. Hardcover first edition - Thomas, the author of this influential history. was the first documented Westerner to cross the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter) He "absorbed much of Arab culture, history and beliefs while serving in official and diplomatic postings in the Middle East. and follows the evolution of the Arab people in four parts: from antiquity, to medieval times, the later decine of influence to the revival of the race during and following World War One and including the origins of the Palestine problems. Although much has changed in the Arab world, and to it people, since the 1930s, the bulk of this important study remains as relevant now as it did then." Illustrated with a frontispiece, many black and white photographs, maps including a folded map at rear. Appendix on the racial origins of the Arabs, bibliography and index. x, 364 pp.