London: Octagon Books, 1969. Second edition (previously published by Rider in 1957, with photos, dropped here). Brown boards. pp 192. Mild foxing on a couple of pages, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has a short tear at foot of spine with consequent crease across lower margin of rear panel, slight wear to head of spine and outer corners, VG otherwise, no owner names. Author's travels in North Africa and the Near East, including his meeting wiith Ibn Saud and with Sufis in Syria. An early book by this well known Sufi apologist and respected author. ; Octavo