SINAI - CROSSING THE SINAI DESERT - 200 MILES OF SOLITUDE AND DESOLATION - & SAND. A NOVEL ROAD ...

Place Africa: Egypt, Frontier, Sinai
Accession Number 004031
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Place made Egypt: Frontier, Sinai
Date made 4 November 1940
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

SINAI - CROSSING THE SINAI DESERT - 200 MILES OF SOLITUDE AND DESOLATION - & SAND. A NOVEL ROAD HAS BEEN CONSTRUCTED ACROSS THIS DESERT & NOW IT TAKES A FEW HOURS TO DO THE JOURNEY THAT TOOK THE ISRAELITES 40 YRS. ROAD IS SIMPLY A STRIP OF BITUMEN LAID ON TOP OF THE SAND & FOLLOWS THE DUNES. (NEGATIVE BY F. HURLEY).