'A boy is selected, while he is still in school, to undertake a strange and dangerous quest in the Arabian desert. How he prepares for his work, how he learns to know the people of the desert, learns their language, develops the ability to pass as one of them, and then becomes involved in Lawrence's campaign in Arabia; all this is told in a spirited narrative that holds attention and interest from the first page to the last, and this even though the boy does seem almost incredibly competent in every situation'. Source: Boys' Life (published by the Boy Scouts of America), November 1930, p.54.
