| Burning Sands | |
| Author: | Arthur Weigall |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Publisher: | T. Fisher Unwin (UK) Grosset & Dunlap (US) |
| Release Date: | 1921 |
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Burning Sands is a 1921 dramatic adventure novel by the British writer Arthur Weigall. It was originally published in Britain under the alternative title The Dweller in the Desert.[1] Set in the Middle East, the novel was a riposte to the 1919 novel The Sheik by E. M. Hull.[2]
In 1922 it was adapted into an American silent film Burning Sands directed by George Melford and starring Wanda Hawley, Milton Sills and Jacqueline Logan.[3] It was produced by Paramount Pictures who were hoping to capitalise on the enormous success of the previous year's film version of The Sheik.[4]