Desert, Marsh and Mountain: The World of a Nomad

This is another fantastic collection of black and white photographs from Thesiger (he only took b&W photographs) selected from his travels in Africa, Arabia and Asia.
For each photo there is a description, and a reference back to the body of text where he expands on the explanation. I don't claim to have read it from cover to cover, but for me the photography is the star of this book. As good as the landscape photography is, it is Thesiger portrait photography which brings the book to life.
I was lucky enough to pick up a very tidy copy of this book through Abebooks, and was even more pleased to find it has been autographed by the author. It carries no authentication, of course, but it has been signed on the title page, under the authors printed name, and dated March 26, 1980 less than a year after publication, so no real reason to doubt it is authentic.