- Arabs, Bedouins, Campaigns, Social life and customs
*Seven Pillars of Wisdom* is the autobiographical account of the experiences of British Army Colonel T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") while serving as a military advisor to Bedouin forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire of 1916 to 1918. It was completed in February 1922, but first published in December 1926, originally published for the US market in 1927 as *Revolt in the Desert* and is the only version that was commercially released while he was alive. *Seven Pillars of Wisdom* (1935) is a longer form of the book at almost double the page count and released to the international market.
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- Author
- T. E. Lawrence
- First published
- 1905
- Pages
- 700
- Publisher
- Black House Publishing Ltd, Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., Doubleday & Co., 1938.
- Editions
- 152
- Language
- Japanese, srp, Portuguese, German
- ISBN
- 9781681464091
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“Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances.”
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935), known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916–18. The extraordinary breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title popularised by the 1962 film based on his First World War activities. [Wikipedia]
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