Thesiger
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Item information:author: thesiger, wilfredpages maybe folded due to previous owners usewe take pride in serving youbinding: paperbackcategory: booksother details:condition: good
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";feted by the literary establishment, doughty risked all many times over in his obsesssive quests in arabiasee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoften, too, he found himself at odds with the authorities, his work and his genius, as he saw it, neglectedunyielding in his independence of mind, the tall, red-bearded doughty's aggressive refusal to conceal his christianity made his travels all the more dangerous: he was threatened with death several times, spurned, insulted and often beaten by angry mobshe often seemed possessed by an almost messianic vision of himself and found among the bedouin a chivalry and honour that suited his temperament, as it did thesiger'sin the s doughty spent two years wandering through arabia, first with the haj pilgrimage, then joining nomadic bands of arabs, sometimes staying as a virtual prisoner in far-flung desert townsoxfam bookshop cheltenham explorer, scholar, travel writer and poet, charles doughty was the progenitor of a noble tradition that includes lawrence of arabia (to whom he was a mentor) and wilfred thesiger: british writers who have been fascinated by the bedouin, and in particular by that strange, mythic part of the world, the empty quarter (a phrase which doughty introduced to the west)his long, impassioned and often paradoxical life makes him one of the great british scholar-eccentricsthe story of his archaeological investigations and his wide-ranging observations of arabia and desert life were published in as the famous arabia deserta, with its haunting opening sentence "a new voice hailed me of an old friend when, first returned from the peninsula, i paced again in that long street of damascus that is called straight
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A book of photographs of the tribal people of the deserts of africa by explorer wilfred thesigersee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music bridport large hardback with dust jacketno signs of usecondition details: shelf wear only
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