Wanderings in Arabia - An Abridgement of Travels in Arabia Deserta Made with the Author

Informationen zum Autor Charles Montagu Doughty - Arabist, writer and poet - was born in 1843 in Suffolk to a parson's family. Of frail health, he seemed unlikely material for a desert explorer. On leaving university, he travelled to Damascus where he learned Arabic before joining a pilgrim caravan heading south for Mecca in 1876. He then endured two hard years of poverty and hard travel across the desert region of Arabia. The effect of his travels on his health meant that it took him several years before he had the strength to write the account of his travels which emerged as the magnificent Travels in Arabia Deserta . He died in 1926. Zusammenfassung In the estimation of fellow explorer Benedict Allen: 'The book, which brims with lively observations of human character, opened European eyes to the Arabian desert - not least Gertrude Bell, and later Wilfred Thesiger, who were profoundly influenced by it'. The great Arabist, T.

Product details

• Authors: Charles M Doughty, Charles M. Doughty, Doughty Charles M.
• Assisted by: Charles M. Doughty (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.05.2008
• EAN: 9780571243549
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24354-9
• No. of pages: 624
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 215 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, TRAVEL / Middle East / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Arabian Peninsula, Classic Travel Writing