In the spirit of T.E. Lawrence, Wilfred Thesiger spent five years wandering the deserts of Arabia, producing Arabian Sands, a memorial to a vanished past, a tribute to a once magnificent people. The Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Rory Stewart.Wilfred Thesiger, repulsed by what he saw as the softness and rigidity of Western life the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets spent years exploring in and around the vast, waterless desert that is the Empty Quarter of Arabia. Travelling amongst the Bedu people, he experienced their everyday challenges of hunger and thirst, the trials of long marches beneath the relentless sun, the bitterly cold nights and the constant danger of death if it was discovered he was a Christian infidel. He was the first European to visit most of the region, and just before he left the area the process that would change it forever had begun the discovery of oil.This edition contains an introduction by Rory Stewart discussing the dangers of Thesigers travels, his unconventional personality and his insights into the Bedouin way of life.Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger (19102003) was a British travel writer born in Addis Ababa in Abyssinia (now Ethiopia). Thesiger is best known for two travel books Arabian Sands (1959), which recounts his travels in the Empty Quarter of Arabia between 1945 and 1950 and describes the vanishing way of life of the Bedouins, and The Marsh Arabs (1964), an account of the traditional...

Binding: Paperback;368 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: WTL; Weight: 414 g; Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 23

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