8vo. x, 323pp, [1]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece and a map. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned.

The first edition of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham's (1852-1936) account of his attempt, in 1897, to cross the Atlas Mountains of Morocco to Taroudant disguised as a sheikh. He was was arrested and held captive by the kaid of Kintafi for four months and ultimately turned back to Marakesh.