Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by Jean-Léon Gérôme, Eugène Delacroix and David Roberts. An Englishman crosses the Sahara to a hidden kingdom in search of a talisman and a woman who wears it. Le Queux wrote these desert romances between his spy scares and put real caravan routes into them. This edition adds a gallery of 53 plates after David Roberts, Eugène Delacroix and others, plus six illustrations restored and coloured for this volume.

William Le Queux (1864-1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and novelist born in London. He was a foreign correspondent, an early wireless experimenter, and a tireless self-publicist who insisted he had served as a secret agent. His works include The Eye of Istar, Zoraida, The Great War in England in 1897, and The Pauper of Park Lane.