Author: Holmboe, Knud. (Tr. Helga Holbek).
Title: Desert Encounter. An Adventurous Journey Through Italian Africa.
Description: Harrap. London 1936 1st edition thus. Mauve cloth boards. 281pp illustrated b/w photos. 8vo. Inscription on ffep. minor foxing only. spine faded. a sound clean reading copy. Translated from the Danish. A convert to Islam, Holmboe wrote concerning his travels in 1930 from Morocco through Algeria, Tunis, Tripoli, to Cyrenaica. He was murdered near Akaba by brigands the following year.

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