List of Books

Exploration
All the titles (except the 1997 Almásy edition) are out of print, but occasionally available at second hand bookstores. Try BookFinder.com.

• ALMÁSY, László, "Recentes Explorations dans le Desert Libyque", Royal Geographical Society of Egypt, Cairo, 1936
• ALMÁSY, László, "Unbekante Sahara", Leipzig, 1939
  Originally published in Hungarian, "Az ismeretlen szahara", Budapest, 1934. German version re-published in Vienna in 1997 as "Schwimmer in der Wüste"
  
• BAGNOLD, Ralph A., "Lybian Sands", Immel, London 1935
  
• DUN, Major T.I., "From Cairo to Siwa across the Libyan Desert with armoured cars", E. & R. Schindler, Cairo, 1933
  
• FORBES, Rosita, "Kufara, Secret of the Sahara", Cassel, London, 1921
  
• HARDING KING, W.J., "Mysteries of the Lybian Desert", London, 1925
  
• HASSANEIN BEY, A.M., "The Lost Oases", Century, New York & London, 1925
  
• HOELLRIEGEL, Arnold (Richard Bermann), "ZARZURA, die Oase der kleinen Voegel", Zürich 1938
  
• JARVIS, Major C.S., "Three Deserts", John Murray, London, 1936
  
• ROHLFS, G., "Drei Monate in der Libyschen Wüste", Cassel 1875
  
• MASON, Michael H., "The Paradise of Fools", London 1936
  A very hard to find account of W.B.K.Shaw's 1935 expedition, by a participant.
• SHAW, W.B.Kennedy, "The Long Range Desert Group", London, 1945

Explorers' biographies

• BAGNOLD, R.A., "Sand, Wind & War - Memoirs of a Desert Explorer", Tucson, 1989
  
• CLAYTON, Peter, "Desert Explorer - A biography of Colonel P.A. Clayton", Cargreen, 1998
  

Rock Art
All the titles are out of print, very hard to find even in libraries.

• CAPORACCIO, L. di, P. Graziosi, "Le pitture rupestre di Ain Doua", Edit. centro di Studi Coloniali e Institi. Geogr. Milit., Firenze 1934
  
• RHOTERT, Hans, "Libysche Felsbilder", Darmstadt, 1952
  
• VAN NOTEN, Francis, "The Rock Paintings of Jebel Uweinat", Graz, 1972
  
• WINKLER, Hans A., "The Rock Drawings of Soutern Upper Egypt II.", Egypt Exploration Society, Oxford, 1939

General

• MONOD, Theodore, "Le Desert Libyque", Paris, 1998

Travel Guides

• VIVIEN, Cassandra, "The Oases & Western Desert of Egypt", Cairo, 1990
  This book is available in bigger foreign language & hotel bookstores in Egypt, unavailable outside Egypt
  
• SCOTT, Chris, "Sahara Overland" to be published January 2000 (also in German)

List of Articles
(in English)

Most of the exploration of the Libyan Desert took place in the late twenties & early thirties, and most material, as well as a few recent accounts were published in the Geographical Journal, published by the Royal Geographical Society. A few articles on rock art appeared in Antiquity, and Hassanein's epic jopurney was also published in The National Geographic Magazine, together with all photos contained in his book. A few articles on the southern part of the Libyan Desert appeared in Sudan Notes & Records. Prince Kemal el Din published exclusively in french, his articles appeared in the early-mid twenties in La Geographie ("L'exploration du desert de Libye", Vol:50 (1928), pp:171-183 and 320-336), Revue Scientifique Illustre, and the obscure Bulletin de la Societe Royale Geographique de l'Egypte. The results of the Belgian Scientific Mission to Jebel Uweinat in 1968/69 were published in a special issue of Africa Tervuren, Vol: XV, 1969/4 (mainly in french, some articles in flemish).

Geographical Journal

• BAGNOLD, R.A., "Journeys in the Lybian Desert 1929 and 1930", Vol:78 (1931), pp:13-39
  
• BAGNOLD, R.A., "A further journey through the Lybian Desert", Vol:82 (1933), pp:103-129
  
• BAGNOLD, R.A., "The last of the Zerzura legend", Vol:89 (1937), pp:265-268
  
• BAGNOLD, R.A., O.H. Myers, R.F. Peel, H.A. Winkler, "An Expedition to the Gilf Kebir and Uweinat, 1938", Vol:93 (1939), pp:281-313
  
• BAGNOLD, R.A., "Early Days of the Long Range Desert Group", Vol:105 (1945), pp:30-46
  
• BALL, John, "Note on the cartographical results of Hassanien Bey's Journey", Vol:64 (1924), pp:367-388
  
• BALL, John, "Problems of the Lybian Desert", Vol:70 (1927), pp:21-38; 105-128;209-224
  
• BALL, John, "Remarks on "Lost" Oases of the Lybian Desert", Vol:72 (1928), pp:244-249
  
• el BAZ, Faruk et al., "Journey to the Gilf Kebir and Uweinat, Southwest Egypt, 1978", Vol:146 (1980), pp:51-99
  
• BEADNELL, H.J.L., "The Sand-dunes of the Lybian Desert", Vol:25 (1910), pp:379-395
  
• BEADNELL, H.J.L., "Zerzura", Vol:77 (1931), pp:245-250
  
• BERMANN, Richard., "Historic problems of the Lybian desert", Vol:83 (1934), pp:456-470
  
• CLAYTON, P.A., "The western side of the Gilf Kebir", Vol:81 (1933), pp:254-259
  
• EL-BAZ, Farouk et al., "Journey to the Gilf Kebir and Uweinat, Southwest Egypt, 1978", Vol:146 (1980), pp:51-93
  
• HARDING KING, W.J., "Travels in the Libyan Desert", Vol:39 (1912), pp:133-137;192
  
• HARDING KING, W.J., "The Lybian Desert from native information", Vol:42 (1913), pp:277-283;320
  
• HARDING KING, W.J., "The Farafra Depression and Bu Mungar Hattia", Vol:42 (1913), pp:455-461;516
  
• HARDING KING, W.J., "A Study of a Dune Belt", Vol:51 (1918), pp:17-33;251-258
  
• HARDING KING, W.J., "Lost Oases of the Lybian Desert", Vol:72 (1928), pp:244-249
  
• HARDING KING, W.J., "The Lost Oases", Vol:75 (1930), pp:61-64
  
• HASSANEIN BEY, A.M., "Through Kufra to Darfur", Vol:64 (1924), pp:273-291; 353-393
  
• HUME, W.F., "Conclusions Derived from the Geological Data Collected by Hassanien Bey during his Kufra - Uweinat Expedition", Vol:64 (1924), pp:386-388
  
• JOHNSON, E.A., "Zerzura", Vol:75 (1930), pp:59-61
  
• KÁDÁR, László, "A study of the Sand Sea in the Libyan Desert", Vol:83 (1934), pp:470-478
  
• LANCEY FORTH, N.B. de, "More Journeys in search of Zerzura", Vol:75 (1930), pp:48-59
  
• MOON, F.W., "Notes on the Geology of Hassanien Bey's Expedition, Sollum - Darfur, 1923", The Geographical Journal, Vol:64 (1924), pp:388-393
  
• NEWBOLD, D., "A journey in the south Lybian Desert", Vol:72 (1928), pp:549
  
• NEWBOLD, D., "The Kufara-Egypt Caravan Route", Vol:78 (1931), p.533
  
• PEEL, R.F., "The Tibu peoples and the Lybian Desert", Vol:100 (1942), pp:73-87
  
• PENDEREL, H.W.G.J., "The Gilf Kebir", Vol:83 (1934), pp:449-456
  
• RODD, F.J.R., "A reconnaissance of the Gilf Kebir by the late Sir Robert Clayton East Clayton", Vol:81 (1933), pp:249-254
  
• SANDFORD, K.S., "Past climate and early man in the southern Lybian desert", Vol:82 (1933), pp:219-222
  
• SANDFORD, K.S., "Geology and geomorphology of the southern Lybian Desert", Vol:82 (1933), pp:213-219
  
• SANDFORD, K.S., "The Wadi Hawa", Vol:85 (1935), pp:412
  
• SHAW, W.B. Kennedy, "International boundaries of Libya", Vol:85 (1935), pp:50-53
  
• SHAW, W.B. Kennedy, "An expedition in the southern Lybian desert", Vol:87 (1936), pp:193-221
  
• WILLIAMS, M.A.J., D.N. Hall, "Recent Expeditions to Libya from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst", Vol:131 (1965), pp:482-501
  
• WINGATE, Orde, "In search of Zerzura", Vol:83 (1934), pp:281-308
  
• WRIGHT, J.W., "War time Exploration with the Sudan Defence Force in the Libyan Desert", Vol:105 (1945), pp:100-111
  

Antiquity

• NEWBOLD, D., "Rock Pictures and Archaeology in the Lybian Desert", Vol:2 (1928), pp:261-291
  
• PEEL, R.F, "Rock-paintings from the Lybian Desert", Vol:13 (1939), pp:389-402
  
• SHAW, W.B. Kennedy, "The Mountain of Uweinat", Vol:8 (1934), pp:63-72
  
• SHAW, W.B. Kennedy, "Rock Paintings in the Lybian Desert", Vol:10 (1936),pp:175-178
  
  

National Geographic Magazine

• EL-BAZ, Farouk, "Egypt's Western Desert", November, 1981
  
• HASSANEIN BEY, A.M., "Crossing the untraversed Lybian Desert", September, 1924 (Vol:46), pp:233-277

Sudan Notes & Records

• ALMÁSY, László, "By Motor Car from Wadi halfa to Cairo", Vol:13 (1930), pp:269-278
  
• ALMÁSY, László, "Bir Bidi", Vol:18 (1933), pp:259-276
  
• BIDI, Awdi, "The Southern Route to Kufra", Vol:5 (1922), pp:130-136
  
• NEWBOLD, D., "A Desert Odyssey of a Thousand Miles", Vol:7 (1924), pp:43-92
  
• NEWBOLD, D., "History and Archaeology of the Libyan Desert", Vol:22 (1945), pp:229-239
  
• NEWBOLD, D., W.B.K. Shaw, "An Exploration in the South Lybian Desert", Vol:11 (1928), pp:103-194
  
• SHAW, W.B.K., "Darb el Arba'in (The Forty Days' Road)",Vol:12 (1929), pp:63-71
  

Recent Articles

• EL-BAZ, Faruk, T.A. Maxwell (eds.), "Desert Landforms of Southwest Egypt: A basis for comparison with Mars", in:NASA CR-3611, Washington, D.C. 1982
  
• EL-BAZ, Faruk, "Circular Feature Among Dunes of the Great Sand Sea,Egypt", Science, Vol:213 (24.July 1981), pp:439-440
  
• HAYS, T.R., "Neolithic Settlement of the Sahara as it relates to the Nile valley", in: Wendorf (ed): Problems in Prehistory: N.Afr.& the Levant, (1975), pp:193-204
  
• HOBLER, P.M. and J.J. Hester, "Prehistory and Environment in the Lybian Desert", South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol:33 (1969), pp:120-130
  
• KRÖPELIN, S., "Paleoclimatic evidence from early to mid-holocene playas in the Gilf Kebir", Paleoecology of Africa, Vol:18 (1987), pp:189-208
  
• MCHUGH, William P., "Late Prehistoric Cultural Adaptation in Southwest Egypt and the Problem of the Nilotic Origins of Saharan Cattle Pastoralism", Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Vol:11 (1974), pp:9-22
  
• MCHUGH, William P., "Some Archaeological results of the Bagnold-Mond expedition to the Gilf Kebir and Gebel Uweinat, Southern Lybian Desert", Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol:34 (1975), pp:31-62
  
• PACHUR, H.J., S. Kropelin, "Wadi Howar: paleoclimatic evidence from an extinct river system in the southeastern Sahara", Science, Vol:237 (1987), pp:298-300
• OSBORN, Dale J., Karl V. Krombelin, "Habitats, Flora, Mammals, and Wasps of Gebel Uweinat, Libyan Desert", Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 1969 Number 11.
  
• WENDORF, Fred, et al., "Egyptian Prehistory: Some new concepts", Science, Vol:169 (1970), pp:1161-1171
  
• WENDORF, Fred, et al., "The Prehistory of the Egyptian Sahara", Science, Vol:193 (1976), pp:103-114