The first white man / traverse / this desert / H. St.John Philby / in the 1930s.

• A. 
  The first white man traversed this desert was H. St.John Philby, in the 1930s.
• B. 
  The first white man traversed this desert and was H. St.John Philby, in the 1930s.
• C. 
  The first white man to traverse this desert he was H. St.John Philby, in the 1930s.
• D. 
  The first white man to traverse this desert was H. St.John Philby, in the 1930s.