- Description and travel, Travel, Thesiger, Wilfred, -- 1910- -- Travel -- Arabian Peninsula, Travel writing
Story of five years of travel with the nomad Arabs in the unknown deserts of Southern Arabia.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and cool.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Wilfred Thesiger
- First published
- 1959
- Pages
- 347
- Publisher
- Penguin USA, Inc., Longmans, Viking Press
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- Arabic, English
- ISBN
- 9780670130054
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“A childhood in Abyssinia is followed by a journey in the Danakil country and service in the Sudan.”
Major Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger, CBE, DSO, FRAS, FRGS, also called Mubarak bin London (Arabic for "the blessed one from London")[1][2] (3 June 1910 – 24 August 2003) was a British explorer and travel writer. Thesiger is best known for his travel books Arabian Sands (1959), on his foot and camel crossing of the Empty Quarter of Arabia, and The Marsh Arabs (1964), on his time living in the marshes of Iraq with the Marsh Arabs. He donated his collection of 23,000 travel photographs to the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.
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