Item #64501 Across the Sahara. Cycling / Travel, F. J. DAVAR, Sir Herbert Palmer, Framroze Jamshed Davar.
Across the Sahara.
Across the Sahara.
Across the Sahara.

Across the Sahara.

London: Arthur H. Stockwell, (1937). First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 132pp. Original blue textured cloth, with gilt titling to spine and front board. B&W photographic illustrations and a map. Photo portrait frontis of the author. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by the author to "My dear friend Mr. Ernest A. Neilson" in Bombay on March 1, 1937 (apparently the time of publications). The book tells the extraordinary story of Framroze Jamshed Davar, a sports journalist from Bombay, who set off to ride his bicycle around the world in January 1924, beginning a seven year odyssey that would see him cycle nearly 70,000 miles through some 52 countries. Nine months into his adventure he reached Vienna, where he met a fellow cyclist named Gustav Sztavjanik who accompanied him on the rest of his remarkable journey. Davar wrote three books based on his journey, recounting their many adventures, and the people and cultures they experienced with an anthropologist's eye for detail. The books were: "Cycling Over Roof Of The World," "Across The Sahara" and "The Amazon in Reality and Romance." Needless to say "Across The Sahara" details their gruelling trip across the Sahara, encounters with the Tuareg, etc. etc. It is well illustrated with black and white photos, and is an almost forgotten classic of adventure / cycling literature. Volume a little leaned and shaken, and lightly bumped at the head and tale of spine, some pale shadowing throughout. Still a VG or better example in the shabby remains of the dust jacket (the jacket is torn and chipped and lacking the spine, now protected by a removable mylar sleeve.) Still an attractive, solid, inscribed, copy of a rare and interesting book. Item #64501

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