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Wilfred Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa and educated at Eton and Oxford. In the spirit of TE Lawrence, Thesiger spent five years exploring the deserts of Arabia. This book narrates his stories, inclu...

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Wilfred Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa and educated at Eton and Oxford. In the spirit of TE Lawrence, Thesiger spent five years exploring the deserts of Arabia. This book narrates his stories, including two crossings of the Empty Quarter, among peoples who had never seen a European and considered it their duty to kill Christian infidels. 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 Thesiger''s travels, his unconventional personality and his insights into the Bedouin way of life. Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger (1910-2003) 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 peoples who lived in the marshlands of southern Iraq. If you enjoyed Arabian Sands, you might like T. E. Lawrence''s Seven Pillars of Wisdom, also available in Penguin Modern Classics''Thesiger is perhaps the last, and certainly one of the greatest, of the British travellers among the Arabs''Sunday Times''Following worthily in the tradition of Burton, Lawrence, Philby and Thomas, it is, very likely, the book about Arabia to end all books about Arabia''Daily Telegraph

Detaljer

Forlag
Penguin Classics
ISBN
9780141442075
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
368
Udgivelsesdato
25-10-2007
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
2467969
EAN nr.
9780141442075
Varegruppe
Engelsk non fiction div.
Højde/Dybde (mm)
130
Bredde (mm)
197
Længde (mm)
23
Vægt (g)
298

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