Arabian Sands (Penguin Classics)

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“Following worthily Within the tradition of Burton, Lawrence, Philby and Thomas, [Arabian Sands] is, very likely, the book about Arabia to finish all books about Arabia.” —The Day by day Telegraph
 
Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger’s record of his ordinary journey in the course of the parched “Empty Quarter” of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger used to be repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life—”the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets.” Within the spirit of T. E. Lawrence, he got down to explore the deserts of Arabia, traveling among peoples who had never seen a European and regarded as it their duty to kill Christian infidels. His now-classic account is invaluable to working out the up to date Middle East.

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