Reprint. Originally published: 1998.

"Mariner books"[a division of Houghton Mifflin].

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-328) and index.

Myth -- Unicorns -- The Sands of Their Desire -- Arabia Felix -- The Flight of the Challenger -- The Search Continues -- The Inscription of the Crows -- The Rawi's Tale -- Should You Eat Something That Talks to You? -- The City of Brass -- The Singing Sands -- Expedition -- Reconnaissance -- The Edge of the Known World -- The Vale of Remembrance -- The Empty Quarter -- What the Radar Revealed -- City of Towers -- Red Springs -- Seasons in the Land of Frankincense -- The Rise and Fall of Ubar -- Older Than 'Ad -- The Incense Trade -- Khuljan's City -- City of Good and Evil -- Sons and Thrones Are Destroyed -- Epilogue: Hud's Tomb -- Key Dates in the History of Ubar -- A Glossary of People and Places -- Further Reflections on al-Kisai's "The Prophet Hud".

No one thought that Ubar, the most fabled city of ancient Arabia, would ever be found -- if it had even existed. Buried in the desert without a trace the lost city had become known as "the Atlantis of the Sands." Many had searched for Ubar, including Lawrence of Arabia Then in the 1980s. Nicholas Clapp, a documentary filmmaker and amateur archaeologist stumbled on the legend of Ubar while poring over historical manuscripts. His curiosity led him to arrange two expeditions to Arabia with a team that included professional archaeologists and NASA space scientists. The discovery of Ubar was front-page news across the world and was heralded by Time as one of the three major scientific events of 1992.