Hardcover Book, The Doomed Oasis, Hammond Innes, Fiction, Adventure, Thriller, Mystery

Hardcover Book, The Doomed Oasis, Hammond Innes, Fiction, Adventure, Thriller, Mystery

A hardcover book entitled The Doomed Oasis (a Novel of Arabia) by Hammond Innes. This is a book club edition.

Charles Whitaker is a Welshman who forsakes his native country for the deserts of Araby. Adapting quickly to this hostile terrain, he soon becomes more Bedouin than British. Whitaker's illegitimate son, David, sets out to find his father. He in turn is followed by a Welsh solicitor who hopes to reunite the two men. The story moves at two levels: One involves a desperate struggle for desert oil; the second, hardly less intense, for father and son to find each other. Both struggles are resolved at Saraifa, the doomed oasis of the title.

Ralph Hammond Innes CBE (1913 – 1998) was a British novelist who wrote over 30 novels, as well as works for children and travel books.

Size:
8½ x 6 inches
248 pages
Hardcover
Published by Alfred A. Knopf -- 1960 -- Book Club Edition

This book is in very good condition. The book has no rips or tears. Its binding is completely intact and strong, and the cover boards have very little wear. The pages are clean and unmarked though yellowed from age. The dust cover is in good condition with water staining on the spine (that didn't affect the inside book).

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