wind, the virgin sand of the desert, the infinity of far-off skies in which wheel the numberless hosts of the skies... and the dream that I became one with them." When he saw the Pyramids for the first time, he could not wait to leave. "The only thing that one might possibly admire is the stupendous effort it took to build them, and this admiration demands the mentality of a German tourist," he wrote. Bibliography by Monfreid Les secrets de la mer Rouge (Grasset, 1931) First English edition published in 1934 by Faber & Faber, London under the title "Secrets of the Red Sea". Aventures de mer (Grasset, 1932) First English edition published in 1937 by Methuen & Co, London under the title "Sea Adventures". La croisière du hachich (Grasset, 1933) First English edition published in 1935 by Methuen & Co, London under the title "Hashish". Vers les terres hostiles de l'Éthiopie (Grasset, 1933) La poursuite du Kaïpan (Grasset, 1934) Le naufrage de la Marietta (Grasset, 1934) Le drame éthiopien (Grasset, 1935) Le lépreux (Grasset, 1935) Les derniers jours de l'Arabie Heureuse (N.R.F., 1935) Les guerriers de l'Ogaden (N.R.F., 1936) Le masque d'or (Grasset, 1936) L'avion noir (Grasset, 1936) Le Roi des abeilles (Gallimard) Le Trésor du pélerin (Gallimard, 1938) Charras (Editions du Pavois, 1947) Du Harrar au Kenya (Grasset, 1949) L'homme sorti de la mer (Grasset, 1951) Ménélik tel qu’il fut (Grasset, 1954) Sous le masque Mau-Mau (Grasset, 1956) Mon aventure à l'île des Forbans (Grasset, 1958) Le Radeau de la Méduse : comment fut sauvé Djibouti (Grasset, 1958) Les Lionnes d'or d'Ethiopie (Laffont, 1964) Le Feu de Saint-Elme (Laffont, 1973) Journal de bord (Arthaud, 1984) Lettres d'Abyssinie (Flammarion, 1999) Lettres de la mer Rouge (Flammarion, 2000) by Monfreid's daughter, Gisèle Mes secrets de la Mer rouge (Editions France-Empire, 1982) by Ida Treat Pearls, Arms and Hashish (Coward-McCann, 1930) This book was written by Ida Treat based on conversations she had with Monfreid while visiting him in Djibouti at the end of the 1920s. The book was published in the United States before Monfreid started to write about his adventures himself. The material in the book is a description of the same events which Monfreid told, in much more detail, in his first three books: Les secrets de la mer Rouge, Aventures de mer and La croisière du hachich. Discography Henry de Monfreid chante la mer, 33rpm, PolyGram distribution,