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Explorer-at-large for fifty years, Henry Field has led expeditions around the world tracing the track of man. In these stories, Field captures the spirit of the people who lived or worked in the North Arabian Desert in the years between the two great wars; of the Bedouins who pitched their black tents on its vast expanse and tended their herds of camels and sheep; of the foreigners who took the oil from thousands of feet beneath its sandy surface; of pilgrims, travellers, scholars and workers who adventured upon it.