The lost oases
START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 70135
THE LOST OASES
HASSANEIN BEY
The Egyptian explorer, in Bedouin clothes starting on his trek of twenty-two hundred miles across the desert
BY A. M. HASSANEIN BEY, F.R.G.S.
BEING A NARRATIVE ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR’S EXPLORATIONS INTO THE MORE REMOTE PARTS OF THE LIBYAN DESERT AND HIS REDISCOVERY OF TWO LOST OASES
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR JAMES RENNELL RODD, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O. ILLUSTRATED WITH AN ORIGINAL MAP, AND FROM MANY PHOTOGRAPHS MADE BY THE AUTHOR
PUBLISHED BY THE CENTURY CO. NEW YORK AND LONDON
Copyright, 1925, by The Century Co.
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
IN HOMAGE AND GRATITUDE TO HIS MAJESTY KING FOUAD I WHO BY HIS HELP AND ENCOURAGEMENT MADE THIS JOURNEY POSSIBLE
Ahmad Muhammad Hasanayn
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THE LOST OASES
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Introduction
2. Astronomical Determination of Local Time
3. Astronomical Determinations of Latitude
4. Observations of Compass-Variations
5. Longitudes
6. Altitudes above Sea-level
7. Summary of Principal Geographical Positions and Levels
8. Construction of the Route Map on Scale 1:2,000,000
9. Additions to Geographical Knowledge Resulting from the Expedition
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