EAN: 9780141442075

PENGUIN CLASSICS ARABIAN SANDS - WILFRED THES...

"Following worthily in the tradition of Burton  Lawrence  Philby and Thomas  [Arabian Sands] is
very likely  the book about Arabia to end all books about Arabia." -The Daily Telegraph    
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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