Arabian Sands

Name: Arabian Sands
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Author: Wilfred Thesiger

Auteur: Wilfred Thesiger

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Wilfred Thesiger R. Stewart

Engels
Hardcover
9780670130054
19 april 1984
347 pagina's

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Wilfred Thesiger

Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003) was a British explorer and travel writer. He was born at Addis Ababa, Abyssinia (now Ethiopia). Educated at Eton and Oxford, he worked in the Sudan Political Service and later, for a year, as a Political Officer for the Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie. He is best known for two travel books: Arabian Sands (1959) and The Marsh Arabs (1964).

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In the spirit of T.E. Lawrence, Wilfred Thesiger spent five years wandering the deserts of Arabia, producing Arabian Sands, 'a memorial to a vanished past, a tribute to a once magnificent people'. The Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Rory Stewart.Wilfred Thesiger, repulsed by what he saw as the softness and rigidity of Western life - 'the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets' - spent years exploring in and around the vast, waterless desert that is the 'Empty Quarter' of Arabia. Travelling amongst the Bedu people, he experienced their everyday challenges of hunger and thirst, the trials of long marches beneath the relentless sun, the bitterly cold nights and the constant danger of death if it was discovered he was a Christian 'infidel'. He was the first European to visit most of the region, and just before he left the area the process that would change it forever had begun - the discovery of oil.This edition contains an introduction by Rory Stewart discussing the dangers of Thesiger's travels, his unconventional personality and his insights into the Bedouin way of life.Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger (1910-2003) was a British travel writer born in Addis Ababa in Abyssinia (now Ethiopia). Thesiger is best known for two travel books: Arabian Sands (1959), which recounts his travels in the Empty Quarter of Arabia between 1945 and 1950 and describes the vanishing way of life of the Bedouins, and The Marsh Arabs (1964), an account of the traditional peoples who lived in the marshlands of southern Iraq.If you enjoyed Arabian Sands, you might like T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, also available in Penguin Modern Classics'Thesiger is perhaps the last, and certainly one of the greatest, of the British travellers among the Arabs'Sunday Times'Following worthily in the tradition of Burton, Lawrence, Philby and Thomas, it is, very likely, the book about Arabia to end all books about Arabia'Daily Telegraph

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 19 april 1984
Aantal pagina's: 347
Illustraties: Met illustraties

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Hoofdauteur: Wilfred Thesiger
Tweede Auteur: R. Stewart
Hoofduitgeverij: Viking Books

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Product breedte: 131 mm
Product hoogte: 24 mm
Product lengte: 195 mm
Studieboek: Nee

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EAN: 9780670130054

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Het bestelde boek Arabian Sands van Wilfred Thesinger wat ik ooit had uitgeleend en nimmer had terugontvangen nu weer splinternieuw op tafel .
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