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Arabian Sands

By Wilfred Thesiger

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
0141442077, 9780141442075
Open Library ID
OL9796836M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
28 MB (29354811 bytes)
Pages
400\378
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life-"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets." In the spirit of T. E. Lawrence, he set out to explore the deserts of Arabia, traveling among peoples who had never seen a European and considered it their duty to kill Christian infidels. His now-classic account is invaluable to understanding the modern Middle East.

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