No. XIII of the Reports of the Research Committee Society of Antiquaries of London. 81 plates (the majority photographic, with multiple images). 4to. Fine original printed boards. xv, 191pp. Oxford, 1944.
Thompson set out for southern Arabia with Freya Stark and Elinor Gardner in 1937, arriving in Aden in October, at a time when the area was “archaeologically still terra incognita”. It is interesting to note that several of the plates illustrating this work are by Freya Stark herself.
