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33 pages, inluding sketch illustrations. Plus black and white photographic plates and a large fold-out colour map measuring approximately 16 x 9 inches (40 x 23cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. This is a detailed first-hand expedition report of discoveries made by accomplished Libyan Desert explorer Ralph A. Bagnold. Although retired from the military since 1935, Bagnold remained a desert explorer. With the aid of the Egypt Exploration Society, in 1938 Bagnold organized his most ambitious scientific expedition to the Gilf Kebir and Uweinat. While on this venture, fellow explorers, Hans Winkler, recorded rock art at Karkur Talh, and Oliver Myers excavated two main neolithic sites in the Gilf Kebir, in Wadi Bakht and Ard al Akhdar. Bagnold and Shaw also discovered a new rock art site in Karkur Murr, and one also in Wadi Abd el Melik in the Gilf Kebir. With contributions by Bagnold's expedition members Myers, Peel and Winkler, this comprehensive dissertation is clearly outlined in sections dealing with the Sir Robert Mond expedition, archaeological work - specifically of Palaeolithic sites and later sites, on rock-drawings and paintings, Tibu (Guraan Remains), dramatic features and craters of the Gilf Kebir, rock pictures at Uweinat, Sand Movement and Dunes, and a section describing logistics such as transport, navigation and supplies. This is Bagnold's preliminary reveal of critical findings, which precedes the release of his book, 'The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes' which was not published until 1941. A marble plaque in memory of Bagnold's 1938 Egypt Exploration Society's Expedition was later placed along the Tropic of Cancer at Gilf Kebir by the Zarzora Expedition.